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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1300/a02.html
Newshawk: allan
Pubdate: Wed, 07 Nov 2007
Source: North Adams Transcript (MA)
Copyright: 2005 New England Newspapers, Inc.
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Website: http://www.thetranscript.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3745
Author: Johnnie Carrier

KICK THE BUREAUCRATS

If you are a junkie, then you know the biggest problem with your pesky little habit is the rising quandary of overdosing.  With heroin-related deaths having doubled since 1997, overdoses in Massachusetts are reaching epidemic proportions, due mainly to a few factors.

The drug's purity and cheap price have made it as dangerous and as easy to get as a bottle of Mad Dog 20-20, with a less of a stigma attached to it as say a wino "getting on the dog."

So what are you going to do, go clean, quit, head to rehab again?

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MAP posted-by: Derek

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