DrugSense FOCUS Alert #433 - Tuesday, 16 February 2010 For newspapers to print a series of articles about heroin is rare. The Los Angeles Times printed, starting on the newspaper's front page each day, an in depth series Sunday through today. The sidebar, below, appeared at the end of each article. Here are the links to each article: Sunday: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n111/a09.html Monday: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n114/a01.html Tuesday: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n117/a03.html Your letters to the editor may be sent by using the webform at http://mapinc.org/url/bc7El3Yo - which recommends letters of about 150 words or less - or by email to [email protected]. Sustaining all the activities of DrugSense in support of the reform community is difficult in these hard economic times. Please consider giving what you can. Details are at http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm. ********************************************************************** ABOUT THIS SERIES Times staff writer Sam Quinones is the author of two books about Mexico, where he lived for 10 years. For this series, he traveled to Colorado, Idaho, Ohio, West Virginia and Xalisco, Mexico, to track the spread of black-tar heroin. He interviewed police narcotics officers, federal drug agents, prosecutors, public health officials, addiction experts and imprisoned former dealers and addicts across the U.S. Sunday: Pushing heroin into the heartland. Monday: Black tar packs a deadly punch. Tuesday: Drug money transforms a backwater. latimes.com/blacktar An audio slide show and other resources are available online. ********************************************************************** Suggestions for Writing LTEs Are at Our Media Activism Center http://www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides ********************************************************************** Prepared by: Richard Lake, Senior Editor www.mapinc.org === DrugSense provides many services at no charge, but they are not free to produce. Your contributions make DrugSense and its Media Awareness Project (MAP) happen. Please donate today. Our secure Web server at http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm accepts credit cards and Paypal. Or, mail your check or money order to: DrugSense 14252 Culver Drive #328 Irvine, CA 92604-0326. (800) 266 5759 DrugSense is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the expensive, ineffective, and destructive "War on Drugs." Donations are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.