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Heroin


1998 Rodney Harvey, actor, model, featured in Life Magazine spread with Madonna, appeared in Fox series, 'The Outsiders', guest on television show 'Twin Peaks', appeared in 'My Own Private Idaho', died at age 30, of a heroin overdose

1989 U.S. bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 Billion street value)

1988 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin

1986 It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction

1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story

1978 Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto

1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada

1976 Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose

1968 Frankie Lymon, rocker, dies of a heroin overdose

1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York City

1935 Les Reed, songwriter, Heroin


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