What’s unique since Katrina is the quantity of heroin now coming into the city ... Dealers make home deliveries. Drugs Inc s3e5: Hurricane Blow
The party-set prefer their heroin smoked. Drugs Inc s3e7: Hollywood High
Heroin flows into the city from Asia and south and central America. Drugs Inc s3e9: Motor City Rush
Chicago: home to some of the biggest open-air drugs markets in America. Gangs work in highly organised teams selling drugs on blocks and street corners. And the product they’re pushing hardest is heroin. Drugs Inc s4e3: Windy High City, 2013
There’s one drug that never goes out of fashion – heroin. Drugs Inc s4e8: Wasted in Seattle
20,000 people, almost 3% of Alaska’s population are now addicted to opiates. Drugs Inc s4e13: Best in the Business
Trust sells black tar heroin, named for its dark gooey consistency. It's grown from poppies in Mexico. Drugs Inc s4e14: Best in the Business
20,000 people, almost 3% of Alaska’s population are now addicted to opiates. ibid.
Thousands of Portland’s youth succumbing to heroin’s powerful allure. Drugs Inc s5e4: Dope-Landia
South Memphis Tennessee: paranoid and trigger-happy drug dealers gather to protect their turf. Local drug gangs are under siege from local rivals looking to rip them off. Drugs Inc s5e5: Memphis Mayhem
A new breed of independent heroin dealer is taking over. ibid.
If you’re in Minnesota, and if you’re in the northern suburbs, you’re touching my dope; I’ve touched that dope already. Drugs Inc s5e6: Snitch Cities, Ace drug dealer
Dealing for Ace is a 24/7 business. ibid.
The Twin Cities have some of the purest heroin money can buy in the whole of the United States. ibid.
Children are picking up guns and going to work. ibid.
Baltimore: for many, the biggest hustle is heroin. Drugs Inc s5e9: The High Wire
Baltimore Scramble only contains 3-10% raw heroin. ibid.
‘It’s like this giant tingly wave.’ ibid. Lamb
Baltimore’s 60,000 addicts make for an extremely lucrative market. ibid.
Abuse of prescription pills has created a whole new generation of heroin addicts. ibid.
Finger = 10 grams of heroin; Paperchaser = sells a gram for $100. Drugs Inc s5e10: Boston Benzo Buzz
Since 2007 heroin ODs in Ohio have caused more deaths than car accidents. Drugs Inc s6e9: Hardcore Heroin
Ohio’s heroin is more deadly than ever. ibid.
There are 700,000 heroin users in the US – double those in 2005. ibid.
Two jails: one in California the other in New Jersey. Both have a policy of cracking down on drugs. But drugs still find a way in. In Cali the inmates’ drug of choice is Meth; in Jersey they go for something deadlier: heroin. Drugs Inc s7e5: Jailhouse Junkies
Bergen County: roughly two-thirds of all incoming inmates are addicts: and the drug of Choice in Bergen County is heroin. ibid.
In 2014 the Pittsburgh Impact Team made over 1,500 arrests. Their aim: to work their way up the supply chain one bust at a time. Drugs Inc s7e8: Pittsburgh Smack
Heroin casualties are piling up. ibid.
There are 700,000 heroin users in the US – double those in 2005. Drugs Inc s7e9: The Living Dead,
81% of first-time heroin users previously abused prescription pills. ibid.
The flow of heroin into Staten Island … Staten Island is home to one of the fastest growing heroin epidemics in the US. Drugs Inc s7e12: Heroin Island New York
30% of Staten Islanders work in blue-collar jobs. ibid.
The young get hooked by raiding their parent’s medicine cabinets. Every five days one person overdoses on Staten Island. ibid.
They’re young and hopelessly addicted. A new generation of heroin junkies. Drugged: High on Heroin, National Geographic 2013
A craving that never goes away. Each smoke brings a powerful high ... But heroin destroys users. ibid.
2,000 Americans die from heroin overdose each year. ibid.
Heroin withdrawal impacts the whole body. ibid.
A new generation of heroin addicts – young, middle class. ibid.
Over 125,000 high school students in America use heroin every month. ibid.
Loved ones are abused and abandoned. ibid.
Heroin from Afghanistan in the east has also been trafficked to Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. Europe’s Dirty Drugs Secret: Stacey Dooley Investigates, BBC 2013
Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown.
Every time just like the last
On her ship tied to the mast
To distant lands
Takes both my hands
Never a frown with golden brown. The Stranglers, Golden Brown
Things like heroin and alcohol can and should be used for the purpose of worshipping, that is entering into communion with the Snake that giveth knowledge and delight and bright glory. Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend @364
I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing. William S Burroughs
I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to ‘smack’, and quickly. Dan Rather, news presenter
The main problem with heroin – it’s very moreish apparently. Harry Hill, on stage
People started looking at me another way. Like I was dirty. They looked at me with pity and horror, and they hadn’t looked at me that way before. Miles Davis
Heroin was our badge. The thing that made us different from the rest of the world. It was the thing that said, We know. You don’t know. It was the thing that gave us membership in a unique club. And for this membership we gave up everything else in the world. Every ambition. Every desire. Everything. It ruined most of the people. Red Rodney
Heroin was different. ‘Drastic stuff’ Armstrong called it. And soon it seemed to be everywhere. Dumped into black neighbourhoods by organised crime. Heroin’s effect was devastating. Ken Burns, Jazz: The Gift 1945-1949, PBS 2001
Heroin changed the dynamics of performance. ibid.
Miles Davis too turned to drugs: first snorting heroin then injecting it directly into his veins. To support his habit, to feed the beast as he remembered, he stole from friends, pawned his horn, even became a pimp. Davis was jailed for possession in Los Angeles but managed to beat the charge. Ken Burns, Jazz: The Gift 1949-1955