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After heroin overdoses, police search for source of drugs

A rash of drug overdoses and two deaths have area police searching for the source.

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Virginia Beach sees rise in heroin-related deaths

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23 indicted on heroin charges in Ocean City

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Officials crack multistate heroin network

Federal and state officials in New Jersey say they've cracked a major heroin network that was supplying dealers in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington.

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Baltimore officer sentenced for dealing heroin

A Baltimore police officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for trafficking in heroin, a crime prosecutors say he committed while on duty and in uniform.

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NIH pledges $5M toward dual heroin-HIV vaccine

The federal government is pledging $5 million toward a military medical researcher's work on a dual vaccine to treat heroin addiction and prevent infection with the AIDS virus.

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Afghan heroin trafficker gets life in US prison

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Leader of heroin ring from Ghana to be sentenced

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Man at D.C. airport accused of smuggling heroin

Authorities say an airline passenger at Washington Dulles International Airport has been arrested after they found almost a pound of heroin in his stomach.

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