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New York Becoming The Center Of Heroin Trade
397561 09: Homeless woman Joan Kimball, 37, injects herself with heroin beneath the Manhattan bridge where she lives November 20, 2001 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Economic difficulties that have worsened since the September 11th attacks have sent the homeless population rising in some of America's largest cities. According to the Coalition for the Homeless, there is now a record high of nearly 30,000 homeless people in New York City shelters. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
397561 09: Homeless woman Joan Kimball, 37, injects herself with heroin beneath the Manhattan bridge where she lives November 20, 2001 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Economic difficulties that have worsened since the September 11th attacks have sent the homeless population rising in some of America's largest cities. According to the Coalition for the Homeless, there is now a record high of nearly 30,000 homeless people in New York City shelters. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The flood of heroin coming into and going out of New York City has surged to the highest levels in more than two decades, alarming law enforcement officials who say that bigger players are now entering the market to sell the drug here and to feed a growing appetite along the East Coast.

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