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Heroin is the fatal drug of choice in Seattle. It has killed hundreds of people from all walks of life over the past three years. A new generation is getting hooked, thanks to low prices and high purity levels. It's an epidemic that has reached the middle class.
In this special report, P-I reporter Vanessa Ho and photographer Dan DeLong look behind the numbers to examine the epidemic's toll on real people -- both the addicts and those they leave behind. |
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Drug is infiltrating all walks of Seattle life For years, heroin silently destroyed urban down-and-outers and alternative hipsters. But the drug's popularity is spreading to the mainstream from Everett to Maple Valley, and its toll bruises all parts of society.
In methadone, there is help -- and controversy
Nations around the globe fighting heroin with innovation
Tina Marie Logan's story illuminates the sad, underground world of Seattle's heroin addicts. For five months, we followed her through a bleak cycle of poverty, desperation and depression. >> See photo gallery by Dan DeLong |
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