Ace of Spades. Lady Gaga. Gucci. I-95. Twilight. MySpace. Grim Reaper. Skull and Crossbones. D.O.A.
Heroin.
“Each of these packages, which can sell for as little as $6 on the street, offered a grim window into Mr. Hoffman’s personal struggle with a resurgent addiction that ultimately, the police said, proved fatal. And the names and logos reflected a fevered underground marketing effort in a city that is away in cheap heroin.”
Read the whole thing. I certainly did. It puts on a recognizably on so many of the problems that manifest themselves throughout our city.
Names for heroin reflect increasingly young, middle-class clientele moving from pills to needles: Twilight, MySpace https://t.co/CvTvJo7Cm9
— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) February 4, 2014
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