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The Year Heroin Went Mainstream

YEAR IN REVIEW

The media’s ‘new face of heroin’ game is lazy—not to mention racist.

Heroin is so passé. Portland-based rock band The Dandy Warhols have been singing this epigram since 1997. But it’s been chanted, albeit in not so catchy a tune, for over a century.

As early as 1886, white whippersnappers reportedly visited dark, sweet smelling dens to smoke opium in Chinatowns throughout Chicago,...

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