Black Tar Heroin: Sticky and Sinister

Black Tar Heroin | Turning Point of Tampa

The opiate crisis in the United States has caused over 700,000 deaths since 1999. Many of these deaths were due to heroin. Heroin users quadrupled between 2002 and 2013. Many trace the epidemic’s starting point to the overprescription of pain medications like Oxycontin. As users of these opioid medications developed a stronger tolerance, many of […]