Series summary
Updates: April 27, 2004: Jail may be best for teens on heroin. Read more ...
April 26, 2004:
Inpatient help for young drug abusers, especially girls, is almost nonexistent. Read more ...
Financial burden often hits parents. Read more ...
April 10, 2004:
Cheap, deadly heroin luring teens. Read more ...
Regrets and worries of a drug addict. Read more ...
March 22, 2004: 3-year investigation nets over 15 suspects from Boston to R.I. Read more....
Nov. 8, 2003: $4 a death: Heroin in the suburbs, with updated graphics on South Shore drug use, offenders and arrests. Read more ...
No
casual users
It seems innocent: a few puffs of marijuana with friends. But South Shore suburbanites are feeding the drug pipeline. Read more ...
The
war we have not won
Far more people from local towns get treated for heroin and cocaine than get arrested. And overwhelmingly, it’s users, not dealers, getting busted. Read more ...
Drug
detective
Let Braintree police Detective Jeff Jernegan drive you around his town. What he sees and how he looks at things will shock you. Read more ...
Stakeouts,
buys and busts
It is dirty and dangerous for undercover agents making buys. But that’s the way the war on drugs is waged. Read more ...
Our
pill-popping nation
Far more people abuse prescription drugs than ever touch cocaine or heroin. It the silent epidemic. Read more ...
Is
there a better way?
To anti-drug warriors, it’s simple: do everything we’ve been doing and more. But drug-policy reformers say that’s doing more harm than good. Read more ...
GRAPHICS SUMMARY:
Cost of drug abuse in the U.S.
Drug arrests on the South Shore, by age
Drug seizures on the South Shore