Historians R Us

This blog is the property of the AP US History class at Pope John XXIII High School in Everett, MA, USA. Here students explore current events in America, while seeking to understand the historical roots of those events. At the same time, students are able to carry on classroom discussions in the cyber world.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Uh... Drugs are bad.. Don't do drugs... MMMKAY

The New York Times is reporting that police and health authorities around the United States are struggling to track down the source of a doctored, intensely powerful heroin that has killed at least 130 people in and around the Chicago and Detroit areas, and sent hundreds more to hospitals in cities from St. Louis to Philadelphia.In the "paranoid world of illicit drugs," tales of killer heroin have come and gone before. But this time is "very, very, different, " law enforcement and health officials have said. The pattern of cases is broader, involving many markets at once, suggesting, they say, a larger and more sophisticated distribution network. The additive has been traced to laboratories in Mexico, which has traditionally supplied much of the Midwest heroin, raising fears that other hybrid pharmaceutical street drugs might emerge. Hopefully they can put a stop to this before anyone else is harmed.

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