Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010
Subject: #433 Black Tar Heroin
BLACK TAR HEROIN
**********************************************************************
DrugSense FOCUS Alert #433 – Tuesday, 16 February 2010
For newspapers to print a series of articles about heroin is rare. The
Los Angeles Times printed, starting on the newspaper’s front page each
day, an in depth series Sunday through today. The sidebar, below,
appeared at the end of each article. Here are the links to each article:
Sunday: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n111/a09.html
Monday: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n114/a01.html
Tuesday: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n117/a03.html
Your letters to the editor may be sent by using the webform at
http://mapinc.org/url/bc7El3Yo – which recommends letters of about 150
words or less – or by email to letters@latimes.com
Sustaining all the activities of DrugSense in support of the reform
community is difficult in these hard economic times. Please consider
giving what you can. Details are at http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm
**********************************************************************
ABOUT THIS SERIES
Times staff writer Sam Quinones is the author of two books about
Mexico, where he lived for 10 years. For this series, he traveled to
Colorado, Idaho, Ohio, West Virginia and Xalisco, Mexico, to track the
spread of black-tar heroin. He interviewed police narcotics officers,
federal drug agents, prosecutors, public health officials, addiction
experts and imprisoned former dealers and addicts across the U.S.
Sunday: Pushing heroin into the heartland.
Monday: Black tar packs a deadly punch.
Tuesday: Drug money transforms a backwater.
latimes.com/blacktar
An audio slide show and other resources are available
online.
**********************************************************************
Suggestions for Writing LTEs Are at Our Media Activism
Center
http://www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides
**********************************************************************
Prepared by: Richard Lake, Senior Editor www.mapinc.org
=.