Heroin a Growing Threat Across USA, Police Say
April 17th, 2014In other news, Afghanistan Opium Harvest at Record High:
Afghan opium cultivation has reached a record level, with more than 200,000 hectares planted with the poppy for the first time, the United Nations says.
The UNODC report said the harvest was 36% up on last year, and if fully realised would outstrip global demand.
Most of the rise was in Helmand province, where British troops are preparing to withdraw.
One of the main reasons the UK sent troops to Helmand was to cut opium production.
Via: USA Today:
“This kind of sneaked up on us,” Holder said, referring to heroin’s resurgence after its former popularity in the ’50s and ’60s.
Darn. At work last Friday, the 62 yr old lady on the other side of the cubicle wall from me got a notice from her son that his good friend as a kid, whose wedding she had just attended, had unexpectedly died of a heroin overdose. She tried to work at bookkeeping for a few hours because she’s saving her vacation hours for vacation, but she couldn’t keep it together. This week she has been in a fragile emotional state, audibly sniffling, crying and sleep deprived. I don’t know what to say to her. Most people have natural mellowing/forgetting brain chemicals which let you move on quickly and be illogically optimistic but she has gone into a depression mode. their family is trying to hide the cause of death, sort of like my parents friend’s son who died in his 40s with young kids – and we pieced together he was probably let go from his pharmacy technician job for dabbling and continued to use cocaine. Many early heart attacks can be cocaine