Tag: heroin

It never fails: The writer or subject of a Rag story is praised profusely in the comments; the accolades are universal -- almost

I remember the day heroin came to the Amsterdam Houses. It was 1964 and I was 15 years old.

More than 40 years ago, the movie Panic in Needle Park highlighted the heroin epidemic on the Upper West Side. Those days seem to be long gone, but a new movie