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Drug bust in Long Beach, 16 members of Latin Kings gang arrested
By: Admin On: 04-07-2016 Category: Drug trafficking, Heroin, War on Drugs Comment: 0
Drug trafficking is certainly a risky and often deadly business with disastrous consequences. Although the intent of the “War on Drugs” in the United States may have been to target drug smugglers and peddlers, meth and heroin are still killing communities. The FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Reports indicate that of the 1,561,231 arrests for drug […]
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Older heroin users are 27 times more likely to be homicide victims
By: Staff Writer On: 08-13-2015 Category: addiction, Drug Abuse, Heroin, Opioids Comment: 0
Research collected from one the largest surveys of opioid users found that older opioid users have an alarmingly higher chance of being victims of homicide than the general population. This study was led by Dr. Tim Millar from the University of Manchester’s Center for Mental Health and was published in January of 2015 in the […]