Addicted In Alaska, Part 1 in a Series on Heroin Use in the State

Trace each of society’s ills—theft, prostitution, assault and even murder—and you’ll find the common element, the root of those evils, is drugs, an undercover Anchorage police officer said in a recent interview. In Anchorage, the big three are cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin. Heroin is claiming more lives than ever before because increasingly more people are addicted, according to state health officials. But, turns out, the path to illegal drugs often begins legally, before addicts are hooked on heroin. Read More »