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News & World Report ("The Return of a Deadly Drug Called Horse," 1989); the San Francisco Chronicle ("Heroin Making a Resurgence in the Bay Area," 1990); the New York Times ("Heroin Is Making Comeback," 1990); Time magazine ("Heroin Comes Back," 1990); the Los Angeles Times ("As Cocaine Comes off a High, Heroin May Be Filling Void," 1991); the Cleveland Plain Dealer ("Police, Social Workers Fear Heroin 'Epidemic,' " 1992); Rolling Stone ("Heroin: Back on the Charts," 1992); the Seattle Times ("Heroin People: Deadly Drug Back in Demand," 1992); NPR ("Heroin Makes Comeback in United States," 1992); Newsweek ("Heroin Makes an Ominous Comeback," 1993); the Trenton Record ("A Heroin Comeback," 1993); the Washington Post ("Smack Dabbling," 1994); the New York Times ("Heroin Finds a New Market Along Cutting Edge of Style," 1994); USA Today ("Smack's Back," 1994); the Buffalo News ("More Dopes Picking Heroin," 1994); the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ("Heroin Makes a Comeback," 1995); the Times-Picayune ("Heroin Is Back as Major Problem," 1996); the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ("State Gets Deadly Dose as Heroin Reappears," 1996); Rolling Stone again ("Heroin," 1996); and the Los Angeles Times ("Heroin's New Popularity Claims Unlikely Victims," 1996).
Most recreational drugs, like heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine, increase dopamine in the accumbens.
One statistic feeding the heroin "revival" stories is the increasing number of emergency-room visits by people who mention heroin as a reason for seeking ER treatment.
The same is true of heroin consumption, which may readily develop into a condition of dependency in which the addict may enjoy the illusion of freely choosing not a hole bored in his ear but rather numerous telltale holes bored in his veins.
The number of hard-core cocaine and heroin users, between 2.5 million and 3 million, has been stable during the Clinton years.