Sentences to ponder heroin markets in everywhere

Stephanie Predel, a stick-thin 23-year-old freshly out of jail, said she was off heroin. But she knows precisely where she could get more drugs if she ever wanted them — at the support meetings for addicts.

“I can get most of my drugs right at the meeting,” she said. “Drug dealers go because they know they’re going to get business.” She added, “People are going into the bathroom to get high.”

Bennington, a pre-Revolutionary town of 17,000 people, presents another face of the heroin epidemic that has swept through Vermont.

There is more here.  This article suggests that the crackown on prescription drug abuse helped fuel a surge of interest in heroin.  And here is a story on Vermonters for a New Economy.