Heroin takes root in Chautauqua County

Heroin takes root in Chautauqua County
While it can be smoked, it is typically injected via syringe or snorted, tapping into the brain's pleasure receptors and causing a rapid "high." After being somewhat overshadowed by crack cocaine in the 1980s and 1990s, the drug has rebounded … Read more on Westfield Republican

Police Documents Show Gang Wanted Money for Ford Video
TORONTO—Toronto police documents released on Wednesday allege gang members sought as much as $ 150,000 from embattled Mayor Rob Ford in exchange for a video allegedly showing him smoking crack cocaine. The documents, based on extensive wiretapping of … Read more on Wall Street Journal

Coke loses ground to heroin
One third of respondents to the 2012 I-Track study released Thursday said cocaine was the drug they most commonly injected in the last six months, down significantly from 71 per cent of those surveyed four years prior. In its place, heroin had jumped … Read more on Prince George Citizen