Mary is addicted to heroin.

Tom died of a heroin overdose.

She overdosed on heroin.

Tom almost died from a heroin overdose.

The police searched the house and seized 2 kilograms of heroin.

The contribution of these receptors to the overall pharmacology of heroin remains unknown.

By 1980, 60 percent of heroin sold in the U.S. originated in Afghanistan.

First, drug users in Europe are switching to cocaine from heroin.

They have heroin addiction and also prostitution in Iran.

Moreover, in recent years, factories and laboratories for processing opium into heroin have been sprouting in Afghanistan, producing 420 tons of heroin last year alone.

Airlines from a number of countries also provide flights in and out of the country.

Two tons of heroin per month passed from Asia to Europe through Kosovo during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic.

Last year, five tons of heroin was smuggled through the lands now overseen by the United Nations and NATO.

High level collusion enables thousands of tons of chemical precursors, needed to produce heroin, to be trucked into the country.

Interpol says that Albanian gangs now control 70 of heroin trafficking in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia.

Mexico was then a producer of heroin and marijuana, and a transit country for cocaine from South America.

Scarborough himself was jailed for 14 years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin, cocaine and cannabis.

It is a bitter irony that the countries whose soldiers lives are on the line in Afghanistan are also the biggest markets for Afghan heroin.

Grohl would say that the news of Cobain's death was ... probably the worst thing that has happened to me in my life.

Mother Love Bone's debut album, Apple , was released in July 1990, four months after Wood died of a heroin overdose.

Neighbors that used to be transit states for drugs are now major consumers, owing to similar dramatic increases in opium and heroin addiction. Intravenous drug use is spreading HIV AIDS in Iran, Central Asia, and the former Soviet Union.

Up to 100 tons of heroin are estimated to pass through Tajikistan each year, which is equivalent to the estimated annual North American and West European demand.

Neighbors that used to be transit states for drugs are now major consumers, owing to similar dramatic increases in opium and heroin addiction.

It was someone's birthday, and they had very kindly smuggled some heroin into jail, and he was very generously sharing it out with all of his colleagues.

The band suffered a personal tragedy on the night of July 11, 1996, when touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin and Chamberlin overdosed on heroin in a hotel room in New York City.

According to the US government s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), opium, heroin, and marijuana seizures have decreased since Calderón began his drug war, and drug production in Mexico is on the rise. In 2008, according to the US State Department, potential heroin production reached 18 metric tons, up from 13 metric tons in 2006, as production of opium gum rose to 149 metric tons, from 110 metric tons.

Eliminating it will not only help farmers and the West as it tries to curtail heroin use, but also Afghanistan's infant government as it struggles to assert its national authority against the warlords.

All four suspects were being watched by police at the time as part of a major investigation into a heroin and cocaine racket operating across Lancashire, Cumbria, Merseyside, Berkshire and West Yorkshire.

In traditional Western European markets, health officials should brace for a rise in the number of deaths from drug overdoses, as this year s bumper opium crop will lead to higher purity doses of heroin.

Mary Jane Veloso was arrested in 2010 in Indonesia after airport authorities found 2.6 kilos of heroin in her luggage, and the Indonesian Supreme Court sentenced her to die.

NATO troops should be given the green light to help the Afghan army fight opium destroy the heroin labs, disband the opium bazaars, attack the opium convoys, and bring the big traders to justice.

The same was true of opium in Asia.

Prohibitions imposed by the US and other governments decimated traditions that often domesticated these drugs so as to reduce their harm, while simultaneously encouraging transitions to refined drugs like heroin and cocaine.

The greatest number of executions ordered for these crimes corresponds to Iran (10,000 public hangings between 1979 and 2001), a country which also happens to have the world's greatest problem with heroin addiction among people under age 35.

From ravers in all night discos to assembly line workers or long haul truckers, more than 30 million people use amphetamine, methamphetamine (meth), or ecstasy at least once a year more than the combined number of those who take cocaine and heroin.