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• No significant changes were observed in the use of hard drugs like cocaine or heroin in any age group.
  — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
• When users switched to heroin, Scott balked at declaring a public health emergency.
  — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
• In Singapore, the threshold for heroin is 15 grams or more.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
• Four months later, a heroin overdose after gallbladder surgery killed him.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• It’s used illicitly because of its heroin-like effect, and even small doses can be deadly.
  — Amanda Musa, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
• While most of those who died had also taken heroin, fentanyl or other drugs, kratom was the only substance detected in seven of the deaths.
  — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2022
• The courtship takes them into the wilds of South America and finds Lee blazed on alcohol, heroin, and psychedelics.
  — Rich Juzwiak, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
• Shabazz returned home with post-traumatic stress disorder and a serious addiction to heroin.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• The Met has ruled Ambassador Jun Chen’s death a heroin overdose, but his colleagues are very skeptical.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
• Her father is an ex-con heroin addict who shot a man in Massachusetts in 2014 and is a suspect in an unrelated cold case murder.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2022
• The suspect said the heroin and pipe were his but not the rest of the items.
  — cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• The sacks held more than 10 pounds of the fake pills and about five-and-a-half pounds of heroin, the affidavit said.
  — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2023
• Want to live in a state where heroin and meth are legal?
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 9 May 2023
• Back at Danvers' house, Heiss points out the best point of access to the caves and Danvers hands over the heroin.
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 10 Feb. 2024
• Nine were tied to heroin and the rest to prescription drugs or a mix of substances.
  — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2023
• But as his future took shape, heroin worked its way in.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• With heroin, the line moves wildly between green and red.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
• The second wave started in 2010 due to a sharp spike in overdose deaths due to heroin.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2022
• The roommate, called The Banished Earl, has a heroin habit and is the semi-genius lead singer of their band.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• What will the city do when another bad batch of heroin goes through the city and kills more people?
  — Andrea O'Connor, Baltimore Sun, 13 Nov. 2024
• The law included fentanyl and heroin for those found to have 10 grams or less.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• In return, Bostic gave him eight grams of heroin — or about $600 worth — and promised to give him more heroin in the future.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2024
• He was charged with OVI and felony possession of heroin.
  — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
• Though fresh off a detox in Switzerland, Richards was in the midst of a crippling heroin addiction.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• The report lists the effects of fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine as the cause of the late artist’s death at age of 59 in September.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
• The study found that cannabis use was very common among those who were dependent on heroin.
  — Dr. Khushali Jhaveri, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• The original version of the death scene had Walt inject Jane once more to cause the lethal heroin overdose.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024
• Most of the deaths have been linked to fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times as potent as heroin.
  — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• Scattered around the apartment were more than 50 envelopes of what appeared to be heroin — many marked with an ace of spades or ace of hearts.
  — Michelle Tauber, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
• Tyler was staying at a sober living home at the time and had been introduced to heroin, and then fentanyl, by one of his friends.
  — Summer Lin, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024