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Though he may deny it if confronted by dvd girl, John McCain still lives by Sgt. Joe Friday's warning that, "Marijuana's the match, heroin's the fuse, LSD's the bomb."
What this country needs besides a good five-cent cigar... 2008
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They say the drop in problematic drug users could also be attributed to heroin's declining popularity in Portugal and the rising popularity of cocaine and synthetic drugs among young people.
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Though I am well aware that she could end up in jail or the morgue as a result of her behaviors, I am also cognizant that incarceration is one of the few 'growth' industries of the past decade, that heroin's ready availability is directly connected to this nation's military incursions in Southwest Asia, that rational societies do not proscribe alcohol use among older teenagers.
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However, in the past few weeks, local news reports have started coming out about a rise in heroin overdoses, and local authorities are linking them directly to the decreasing availability of painkillers and heroin's cheaper price.
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This morning in an in-depth interview, we're going to be taking a look at heroin's growing clutch on children.
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Most transformative memoirs involve a protagonist overcoming unimaginable adversity: The poor kid who pulls himself out of the ghetto to attend the Ivy League, the war refugee who survives against terrible odds, the junkie returned from the depths of heroin's grasp.
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On campus: Counselors say drug-education programs concentrate too much on crack, neglecting heroin's dangers.
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Most of heroin's dangers are more a consequence of its prohibition than the drug's distinctive properties.
Let's End Drug Prohibition Ethan A. Nadelmann 2008
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Now, everyone from street kids to Yuppies "[feels] they're safe from AIDS, so they generalize to thinking that heroin's safe," says Dr. David R. Gastfriend of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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"They claim heroin's the one thing that'll ease it, " said Dern.
Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003
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