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Article: Back from the brinkHeroin problem grows in Livingston
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- April 5, 2009
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PONTIAC - Livingston County is considered a heroin "hot spot" in
Illinois because police seizures are on the rise and there is easy
access via Interstate 55 to the Chicago area where the drug is
readily available.
Citing an Illinois State Police Report published in March, Bruce
R. Talbot Associates Inc., a Bolingbrook-based drug abuse education/
training firm, concludes Livingston County had more felony heroin
drug seizures than powder or crack cocaine combined.
That is unusual, the Talbot report said, because, as a whole in
Illinois, there are typically more cocaine seizures than heroin
seizures - that is the case in McLean County, for example.
Heroin is an illegal substance that ...