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Re:As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead P... by jdietrich on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:00PM (#20655564)
As a pharmaceutical product, heroin is called diamorphine, which should turn up more information. This article from The Scotsman newspaper mentions the theft of diamorphine from the MacFarlan Smith factory.

https://www.scotsman.com/news-2-15012/drug-menace-off-the-st...

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Re:As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead P... by giobox on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:42PM (#20655988)
Thanks for the link!
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Re:As Scotland's 'Trainspotting' Generation Ages, the Dead P... by jdietrich on Friday August 09, 2019 @02:09PM (#20656900)
You may also be interested in this interview with Dr Roy Robertson, who was one of the first to identify the heroin problem in Edinburgh and the subsequent outbreak of HIV/AIDS.

https://www.holyrood.com/articles/inside-politics/choose-lif...

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