The word “heroin” invokes images of depraved, dangerous people to be feared, scorned and avoided.
These addicts typically lived in impoverished neighborhoods in urban communities where crime and violence were rampant. In the mid-’90s, that all changed; heroin hit mainstream, middle-class America as a result of a deliberate effort, motivated by greed, to target middle- and upper-class teenage girls, lacking in self-confidence and generally prone to risk-taking.
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