The navy, says Bhagwat, seized not just large caches of arms but also heroin destined for West Asia.

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Testing, Parcher argued, showed that Mcintosh died not from cocaine but from heroin.

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NACRO, a prison reform group, says that some switching from cannabis to heroin is going on, but the scale is unclear.

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But Home Office officials say that events in Afghanistan have had a key role in boosting heroin supply.

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DuPont markets a treatment for alcohol and heroin, naltrexone, which blocks the brain receptors that produce the highs from those substances, but it has been a major disappointment.

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But Justice Ministry spokesman Ivo Hommes told the Associated Press news agency that while possession of any amount of heroin is illegal in the Netherlands, in practice things can differ.

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DuPont markets a treatment for alcohol and heroin, naltrexone, which blocks the brain receptors involved in producing the highs from those substances, but it has been a major disappointment.

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