Heroin use on the rise in Coos County | KCBY CBS 11 - News, Weather and Sports - Coos Bay - North Bend, OR - Coos Bay / North Bend, Oregon | Local & Regional News: "number of heroin arrests and heroin linked DUII related charges are way up on South Coast and it seems to be targeting a specific demographic.
According to Lt. Steve Smartt, 'There's been a drastic increase in heroin arrests, just in the last quarter. The quarter before, we had one heroin arrests, this last quarter, there's been 9. It seems to be almost a drug of choice now with the younger set, the 20's.'
Heroin comes from the opium poppy, which can also be found in the widely popular pain killer, Oxycotin. Smartt says he believes the greater availability of that prescription drug for youth to obtain, may have fed into their growing addiction."
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Thursday 30 December 2010
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