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Article in Washington Post, on Heroin, announces phenomenon whereby Heroin users flow towards distributors whose products are killing users.  Article fails to mention near identical article, in the Washington Post, dated June 10, 1990.

Washington Post writer, Courtland Milloy, posted the hyperlinked article on April 4, 2017 without referencing the below June 1990 and earlier articles from the same newspaper.  Milloy is actually reporting on an "old" phenomenon which confirms a cycle of death which is repeated despite government's efforts emphasizing treatment (see Post archives for Treatment responses).

During the 1980s, when drug users learned that "hot shots" were killing users in DC (some found in their suburb-tagged cars, dead, with needles still in their arms), suburban users would pour into the district seeking the same lethal doses.

Milloy is really reporting nothing new and he is silent on the topic of diverting resources to young persons who have not yet become addicted to any substance.

Heroin Overdose Deaths Rise As Drug's Purity Triples Here

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The level of purity of heroin available for sale on the streets in Washington has more than tripled in two years, resulting in a surge in drug overdose deaths in the last 12 months.
Medical authorities say the new potency and its unpredictability threaten longtime heroin addicts as well as new heroin users who are attracted to the narcotic as a way of easing the crash from crack.
Although complete statistics are not available, the D.C. medical examiner's records show that at least 100 people died last year with lethal amounts of both cocaine and heroin in their bodies-

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