1. The state saw a 250% increase in patients receiving treatment for heroin use since 2000.

2. The new heroin has very few noticeable signs of use or abuse.

3. She was arrested a short time later and officers also said they found heroin needles on her.

4. Among those, three times as many deaths were related to heroin overdoses compared with 1999.

5. Paula Nixon, 18, started using heroin when she was 16.

6. The infant also tested positive for heroin and morphine.

7. One night he injected a cocktail of cocaine and heroin and stopped breathing.