By Ellen Barry
MOSCOW — During talks this week with his American counterpart, Russia’s top drug enforcement official, Viktor P. Ivanov, will press the United States to step up efforts to destroy Afghan poppy cultivation, which he said was feeding a devastating drug problem in Russia. ....
“I would call on the United States to use defoliation from the air,” Mr. Ivanov said. ....
The main source of heroin to Boston is Colombia, where we have spent billions on poppy and coca eradication. >>
Low Price, High Power Raise Heroin Deaths
BOSTON -- A lethal combination of rock bottom prices combined with a spike in the potency and availability of heroin on Massachusetts streets has led to an increase in the number of heroin-related deaths in recent years. ....
read the article here and look at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Death report here
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