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Heroin Sells Even As It Kills

Susan Corrigan, i-D, November 1995

JUNK CULTURE IS NOT MERELY FASHIONABLE ANYMORE, IT'S GONE MAINSTREAM

Heroin kills two people every week in Glasgow. It's the most common street drug in Manchester. In London clubbers are using it to chill out. After skipping a generation of recreational drug users, smack is back — and it's more dangerous than ever. What's so fashionable about that?

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