The color of heroin addiction - why war then, treatment now?

The Washington Post: The nation’s heroin epidemic found its way from the shadows of America to Capitol Hill on Tuesday as lawmakers and experts struggled with a raging disease that is leaving an increasing number of bodies behind.

Heroin deaths have almost tripled since 2010, Louis J. Milione, a Drug Enforcement Administration deputy assistant administrator, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. “Today’s heroin at the retail level costs less and is more potent than the heroin that DEA encountered two decades ago,” he said.

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