'Cheese' Heroin Hooking Young Users in Dallas : NPR

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'Cheese' Heroin Hooking Young Users in Dallas
by John Burnett

In Dallas, health officials are seeing children that young being brought to hospitals with signs of heroin withdrawal.
The city is in its third year of what drug abuse experts call a "mini-epidemic" among young Hispanics snorting a mild but addictive heroin called "cheese."
Cheese heroin is Mexican black-tar heroin that has been diluted with crushed tablets of over-the-counter sleep medication such as Tylenol PM...MORE