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Old 01-26-2014, 11:43 AM
 
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I'm sorry I didn't know about this program before it aired and I didn't get to hear it.

But the website has a lot of great links to stories and information about The Bluff.

Stuck In The Bluff: AIDS, Heroin, and One Group
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Old 01-27-2014, 09:02 AM
 
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Interesting in regards to the timeline. I never realized that heroine was so new in regards to Atlanta. Many other major urban eras experienced a heroine epidemic in the late 60s/early 70s that coincided with the deaths of celebrities in regards to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin mentioned in the timeline.

It makes sense that it is still around now here because it hasn't fully run its course. I know a few of drug addicts in the neighborhood (I live in English Avenue) most say they are on crack and I am always surprised when I think about this because crack and heroine use have declined so sharply in most urban areas. I always try to encourage the drug users to get off drugs. My own dad is a recovering drug addict (he did heroine in the 70s and was on crack in the 80s). Luckily, he got off drugs in the early 90s after over 20 years of drug use so it can be done and I try to give them some hope relating that story to them. But heroine use is always shocking to me here, not to be racial, but especially amongst black heroine users since that epidemic is considered to be nearly as bad as the crack era back in the 70s and I didn't know anyone in the 80s or 90s who admitted to using heroine (and I grew up around quite a few junkies due to my father's associates) until I moved here.

FWIW, I have seen the needle exchange bus quite a few times.
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