Market for heroin has exploded in SA – joint survey

Low-income communities have been hardest hit due to ‘a well-orchestrated marketing strategy to make heroin cheaper and penetrate a mass market.’

According to the survey, the rapid growth of the heroin market has been traced to organised crime networks, local gangs and incompetent or rotten police. Senior analyst and author of the report Simone Haysom said the scary part of the heroin epidemic was that it had spread covertly and that the scale of the problem would take authorities by surprise.

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