The Heroin Mystique

Published February 24, 2014

The heroin mystique
Decades after heroin's '70s heyday, long after the drug was associated with creative luminaries like Basquiat, Cobain, Jagger, and Joplin, heroin has retained a certain allure, the reigning drug of genius. Those who die at its … “I think part of the …
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