The Associated Press reported today the United States is facing a “nationwide heroin crisis” according to a top U.S. official.
In the last four years heroin addicts and abusers has increased 75 percent according to Assistant Secretary State William Brownfield.
Brownfield spoke Tuesday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on U.S.-Mexican relations. He heads up the department’s international narcotics and law enforcement unit.
The U.S. has become better at interrupting cocaine and methamphetamine flows from Latin America; but heroin is a different problem, Brownfield said.
Law enforcement authorities throughout the U.S. are warning that the drug is making a comeback. It was once a city phenomenon, but it has now spread to rural villages and middle-class suburbs.
Barbara Kasey Smith is the writer of this article and it is based upon an Associated Press report.
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Associated Press.Com