Heroin Makes Comeback In New Orleans Area

Addicts Start Young, Local Police Say
POSTED: 7:44 am CDT July 7, 2009

“Heroin is not a drug many people associate with the here and now. It was popular in the 1960s and 70s, but now it is making a very real comeback in the New Orleans area. St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens said the heroin problem is now five times greater than it was before Hurricane Katrina. He said the users are in their late teens to mid-40s. “

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