Heroin addiction is on the rise across the nation and in North Carolina, according to law enforcement and health experts, who say the recent death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is a reminder that the drug knows no age or wealth limits.
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In North Carolina, especially the eastern part of the state, law enforcement officials say they are experiencing a surge in heroin that hasn’t been seen in decades, especially among high school students.
“We’re arresting a lot of people who are 18, 19, 20, 21 years old who are supporting their own addiction by selling heroin,” said Lt. Dennis Wooten, with the Nash County Sheriff’s Office. “We’ve seen a lot of brown powder heroin, and our numbers have grown astronomically over the last four years.”
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I wonder if EBT cards are an acceptable form of payment for drugs?
David DeGerolamo
Heroin use in central Pennsylvania is also growing amongst the highschool age population. It was only a matter of time to expect this. The CIA needs to establish distribution networks to move the product comming out of Afghanistan. For the last 8 years we have been told that production is sky rocketing since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. Remember this is nothing new…the CIA created and marketed LSD in the 1960’s.