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  • Border Security
    Border SecurityPhony tourists here to work, belligerent visitors smuggling contraband, toys packed with heroin, weapons disguised as cell phones: all are just another day at the office for the Canada Border Services Agency. Every day, twenty thousand passengers request entry into Canada by way of Vancouver...
  • Afghan Heroin
    Afghan HeroinThe opium flower: where heroin starts its journey.
  • Heroin
    HeroinUnmask heroin, the drug that can be life-threatening.
  • Behind Bars
    Behind BarsFrom counterfeit money to heroin stings these people landed behind bars abroad.
  • Inside Afghan Heroin Facts
    Inside Afghan Heroin Facts: FactsHeroin is produced from raw opium which is extracted from poppies.There are four primary area of the world that heroin originates: Mexico, Columbia, South East Asia (Golden Triangle) and South West Asia (Afghanistan).Heroin was once only known as a needle drug. Today heroin is so pure that a...
  • About Old Habits photo series by Lyric R. Cabral
    About Old Habits photo series by Lyric R. Cabral: Old HabitsThe Hotel's blue sign looms over Saint Nicholas Avenue and blends in with the sky on sunny days. Unkempt letters dangle mischievously and the sign's white neon stopped glowing years ago. The subtle dysfunction of the sign mirrors the chaos of the Hotel, a single room occupancy residence in...
  • About Old Habits photo series by Lyric R. Cabral
    About Old Habits photo series by Lyric R. Cabral: Old HabitsView the gallery The Hotel's blue sign looms over Saint Nicholas Avenue and blends in with the sky on sunny days. Unkempt letters dangle mischievously and the sign's white neon stopped glowing years ago. The subtle dysfunction of the sign mirrors the chaos of the Hotel, a single room occupancy...
  • Memphis Facts
    Memphis Facts: FactsThere were 11 heroin deaths in Shelby County during 2010. In 2013, the number had risen to 42.South American heroin averaged 33.7% purity and cost $2.11 per milligram in a 2011 sample in the city. Tennessee hospitals reported 23,001 visits for drug poisonings in 2011. Heroin Treatment Admissions...
  • Portland Facts
    Portland Facts: FactsWith a population of 603,106 Portland is the largest city in Oregon and the third largest city in the Pacific Northwest; after Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia.The city is proud of its independent spirit.  The famous ‘Keep Portland Weird’ slogan appears on a downtown mural, and it is...
  • Dallas Facts
    Dallas Facts: FactsA gram of heroin can cost between $80 and $350 in Dallas.3.3% of Texas high school students have used heroin.Meth seizures in Texas increased 65% between 2011 and 2012.CBP seized 1,998 lbs of heroin at the Laredo Port of Entry in 2011.Cocaine seizures decreased 62% at the south west border...
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