Tag: heroin
Philip Seymour Hoffman dead. Needle in his arm
Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead this Sunday afternoon. It is believed he died of a heroin overdose.
According to the wsj, the acclaimed actor, 46 was discovered dead in his 4th floor West Village, NYC apartment by a...
Oh really? Substitute teacher passes out in class after taking heroin.
Seems life became a little bit too much for one budding Pennsylvania school teacher, Christopher Chiappetta, 26 after he went on to pass out in class whilst on substituting assignment at Northgate High School.
Authorities first became suspicious when Chiappetta...
Man injects 4 year old son with heroin on day of divorce finalization.
A Washington man, 37 year old Eric Emil Lehtinen, has been accused of repeatedly jabbing his 4 year old son with needles and injecting him with heroin and a cocktail of other drugs, among them ketamine, morphine and codeine....
The National Enquirer insists Macaulay Culkin is a heroin addict. Take the blood test now!
Even though Macaulay Culkin's pr department went out of the way earlier this week to vehemently deny assertions (courtesy of the National Enquirer) that the actor is deep in the throes of a $6000 a month heroin and Oxycontin...
Macaulay Culkin’s camp insist that he is not addicted to heroin. Said to have a $6000 a month habit.
The National Enquirer insists Macaulay Culkin is a heroin addict. Take the blood test now!
Macaulay Culkin said to be hopelessly addicted to heroin. Has turned his apartment into a drug den.
As media speculation mounts as to the severity of...
Macaulay Culkin said to be hopelessly addicted to heroin. Has turned his apartment into a drug den.
The National Enquirer insists Macaulay Culkin is a heroin addict. Take the blood test now!
Macaulay Culkin’s camp insist that he is not addicted to heroin. Said to have a $6000 a month habit.
A new report courtesy of radaronline via...
Pregnant woman turns out to be drug mule in disguise.
A Nigerian woman who had travelled from Paris, France via Air France flight No. 6 claiming to be pregnant has given birth this past Wednesday at JFK's international terminal. Not to a baby child but a rather healthy stash...
14 year old girl dies after Navy veteran who injected her with her heroin refuses to call 911.
Anchorage, Alaska. All 14 year old Jena Dolstad wanted to do was get high but she didn't want to inject heroin by herself. That's when Sean Warner stepped up to the plate and shot her up himself...
It's quite possibly...
Study: Safe injection site cuts overdose deaths.
Getting high in a safe heaven will save your life.
A new study to be published Monday shows that fatal overdoses of heroin have dropped 35 percent in a Vancouver suburb, bringing to light that rather than vilifying the use...
Being a heroin addict in Canada is no fun.
Being a heroin addict in Canada is no fun.
Out of the Montreal Gazette this morning comes a disparaging tale of heroin users who are struggling to receive assistance as a surge of...
Poppy Virus Kills Crops by Half, Triples Heroin Prices
Though at first it seems merely a curiosity (or news only for the addicts) reports that an Afghanistani “poppy eating virus” has tripled drug prices and cut “global opium production..this year nearly by half” could well impact...
The mother who pumped heroin to end her boy’s life.
What's a mother to do?
Francis Ingles was yesterday sentenced to life in jail for killing her son, if that's one way to put it. The case over in England has touched nerves in the field of assisted suicide. The...
How I learned to love the needle.
A violent account of heroin addiction: How I came to love the needle. Stories of infection, dope sickness, overdose and mental illness.
##Editor Update: since the author penned this over 13 years ago, they have sought help for their heroin...
Conversations with a dope user.
Conversations with a dope user: The author's account and conversations with heroin users, hooked and desperate as they struggled with addiction. Somewhere in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC.
I've been sitting in the hollow annals of a nondescript living room waiting for...
Former Royal Harpist admits to double life as a junkie.
A Royal College of Music graduate who played at the wedding of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall has been convicted of handling stolen goods while battling a drug addiction, reports the Times.
Jemima Phillips, 28, a former royal...
