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Article: Heroin UK: Dealers trick young users into addiction
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 11, 1999
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HEROIN DEALERS are exploiting the ignorance of a new generation of
drug users by selling the highly addictive narcotic as a cheap,
lifestyle drug.
A growing body of research suggests that for a new wave of young
people heroin is "just another drug", no different to cannabis or
amphetamines.
Professor Howard Parker of Manchester University, an expert on
heroin who is carrying out research on the drug for the Home Office,
believes the lack of education is partly responsible. "We have a
generation of school kids who have been told that ecstasy kills, but
there is not much information about heroin. A lot of these people
have no idea that heroin is addictive."
His research has found there are few ...