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back when heroin was still legal.
meet people deep in the throws of a heroin addiction, with no way out.
from 1898 through to 1910 heroin was marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough medicine for children. bayer marketed heroin as a cure for morphine addiction before it was discovered that heroin is converted to morphine when metabolized in the liver.
new york -- nicole richie wouldn't say no if she went back in time and had a second chance to try heroin.
richie told jane magazine that given a second chance, she "probably would" try heroin again because that's her personality. after going to rehab, richie is fine now and is planning her wedding to adam goldstein.
the former "simple life" star said she wants five kids: three girls and twin boys.
wsbtv
wa-- a 46-year-old burlington woman accused of teaching her teenage son how to shoot heroin was charged monday in connection with his death from an overdose. patricia l. strosina was charged with intentionally contributing to the delinquency of a child resulting in death in connection with the death of her 16-year-old son raymond strosina, according to a criminal complaint. the boy was found by his father in the father's home in the town of waterford on sept. 14, slumped over a desk in a basement computer room, according to the complaint. a syringe, a burned spoon and other drug paraphernalia were found nearby. online state court records indicate the boy's parents divorced in 2005. an autopsy determined that raymond died of respiratory arrest and a mixed drug overdose that included heroin and cocaine. according to the complaint, several people, including a "case worker," told an investigator with the racine county sheriff's department that the teen had been shooting heroin with his mother. the complaint does not give any details about the case worker's identity or affiliation, and a spokesman for the sheriff's department spokesman was not available for comment. the sheriff's department investigator was told that patricia strosina would take her son along with her to buy heroin and that she would "not cut ray off because he would get sick" from withdrawal. the investigator also was told that the boy was seen smoking marijuana when he was about 14 years old, that his mother taught him how to shoot heroin, and that she was seen injecting her son with the drug. the woman also was seen smoking marijuana and crack cocaine with the boy, according to the complaint. one witness described how strosina, her son and others would shoot up in strosina's car after a drug run and how the only conversation that took place in the vehicle would be about "who would get the first needle and who would get the last bit of heroin." according to the complaint, patricia strosina admitted to using heroin and oxycontin, a prescription pain medication, but she said she and her son were "getting off" heroin. she also admitted taking him with her to milwaukee to buy heroin and said the last time she used the drug with her son was the weekend before his death. she said on one occasion, after a drug buy, that she shot heroin while driving before passing it to her son in the back seat so he could use the drug. she said she and her son typically would share about $20 worth of the drug at a time. the complaint did not indicate how much she or the boy used on a weekly basis. the complaint says that the mother's actions "encouraged and contributed to raymond strosina's drug use, which eventually led to his death." online state court records show that cash bond for patricia strosina was set monday at $15,000. the racine county jail web site showed that she was being held at the jail. if convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. source
the discussion turns to the topic of heroin, and david steps in with a plan to stop all addiction. (aired on saturday 26/9/2009). copyright © 2009 bbc/angst productions
a 4-year-old boy is recovering in a buffalo children's hospital monday after accidentally ingesting a poisonous, powdered mix of heroin and cocaine, according to a local 6 news report.
jamestown police officers said that the boy thought the drugs were candy.
investigators said raymond medina, 25, was walking to a store with his girlfriend's son when the boy took what he believed to be candy from medina's pants pocket and consumed it.
medina lived with the boy's mother and several other children, the youngest three belonging to the couple.
officers found an additional $14,000 worth of drugs in a bathroom drawer that authorities said was easily accessible to the children who lived in the house.
medina is currently being held in the jamestown city jail pending arraignment.
local6.com
"cheese" is not only dangerous. it's cheap. about $2 for a single hit and as little as $10 per gram. the drug can be snorted with a straw or through a ballpoint pen, authorities say. it causes drowsiness and lethargy, as well as euphoria, excessive thirst and disorientation. that is, if the user survives.
from national geographic.
another scene from trainspotting.
new orleans - frank keys jr. faces up to 40 years in prison after he was found cruising down the highway with more than 200 grams of heroin in the diaper he was wearing, federal officials said. keys, 38, of new orleans was charged friday by a federal grand jury. he got in trouble june 3 in st. john the baptist parish, north of new orleans, when sheriff's deputies pulled over the car he was in for a traffic violation, according to court documents. the deputies and drug enforcement agency special agents got permission to search the car, and a drug sniffing dog alerted them to the car's passenger side. the occupants were ordered out of the car, and patted down. during the pat-down, "officers felt a large hard object in the pants area on keys," according to a news release from the u.s. attorney's office. keys told officers he was wearing a diaper and when they asked if there was anything in the diaper, he "shook his head affirmatively." officers then removed a package containing about 257 grams of heroin from the diaper. source
des bishop
oh goody, more sensationalist media hype. the same stuff they`ve been spouting for 70 years...
