Spike in overdoses linked to drug popular with Mexican smugglers

On a further note to this article, I would like to point out as well. Afghanistan, Pakistan, where the troops are today. are surrounded with these poppies. They have fields under protection. Why? to generate the highest income for those Islamic countries.
Don't believe it. Just look it up.

As many people I have known in the past already addicted to this. It's kinda scary for me even today, knowing that they, if they are still alive, may have to deal with this.

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com WINFIELD, Mo. - Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so pure it can kill unsuspecting users instantly, sometimes before they even remove the syringe from their veins. "We found people who snorted it lying face-down with the straw lying next to them," said Patrick O'Neil, coroner in suburban Chicago's Will County But in recent years, Mexican drug dealers have improved the way they process poppies, the brightly colored flowers supplied by drug farmers that provide the raw ingredients for heroin, opium and painkillers such as morphine. Independent Mexican smugglers have the market largely to themselves because the major drug cartels only dabble in heroin, preferring to focus on locally grown marijuana and Colombian cocaine, according to a DEA official in El Paso, Texas.