Ready access, low cost, pill-like high: Heroin’s rise and fatal draw
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Feb 3, 2014 3:49 PM by Evan Perez. Tory Dunnan and Dana Ford - CNN
(CNN) -- At 33 years old, Jamie is trying to get clean.
The native Bostonian started at a young age: drinking, then smoking pot, then taking pain pills and eventually heroin.
"I never thought in my wildest dreams I would stick a needle in my arm," said Jamie, who didn't want his last name revealed. "Not in a million years."
But the low cost, the readily availability and the prescription pill-like high makes heroin a draw that's hard to resist.
"It's a monkey on your back that you can't shake," Continue reading >>>