3 February 2009

Warning of resurgence of 'lethal' white heroin
A form of high-grade white heroin is making a comeback on Britain's streets, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) warned today. Heroin hydrochloride was widespread during the 1970s but was replaced by more well-known "brown" heroin. Easy to snort and inject because it is water-soluble, white heroin's dangers were made clear in Quentin Tarantino's cult film Pulp Fiction, in which Uma Thurman's character snorts the powder, thinking it is cocaine, and then collapses. > Read more.

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