Pubdate: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 Source: Ogdensburg Journal/Advance News (NY) Copyright: 2004 Johnson Newspaper Corp. Contact: http://www.ogd.com/letter.htm Website: http://www.ogd.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/689 Author: Associated Press Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/heroin.htm (Heroin) SMOKING HERION VIENNA, Austria - Drug traffickers are targeting middle-class Americans with high purity heroin that users can smoke rather than inject, a U.N. agency warns in a report being released Wednesday. The Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board -- an independent U.N. body that monitors the global drug situation -- says producers are tailoring new narcotics products to meet the sensitivities of Americans who find injecting drugs repulsive. "This shows how the illicit market operates in a very smart way by selling a drug to a new class of users by telling them, "Use it in a different way and you won't become addicted." - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin