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The White Collar Heroin Problem

The loss of a prominent, honorable, and well-respected celebrity like Philip Seymour Hoffman to a dirty narcotic like heroin proves not all users are created equal.

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The first time Tom Walker* experimented with heroin he was 19—and it made him sob.

New to Southern California, the college freshman became euphoric when the chronic pain that plagued him from a sports injury years earlier, disappeared.

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