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  2. Ike Atkinson - Wikipedia

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    Also charged was Atkinson's nephew, Philip Wade Atkinson, 40, who bought the heroin on his uncle's behalf from the undercover agent at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where he was arrested. [5] Atkinson was released from prison in 2007, [ 4 ] and died in November 2014 at the age of 88.

  3. Harmony Borax Works - Wikipedia

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    During the summer months, when it was too hot to crystallize borax in Death Valley, a smaller borax mining operation shifted to his Amargosa Borax Plant in Amargosa, near the present community of Tecopa, California. The Harmony Works remained under Coleman's operation until 1888, when his business collapsed.

  4. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    As heroin use rose, so did overdose deaths. The statistics are overwhelming. In a study released this past fall examining 28 states, the CDC found that heroin deaths doubled between 2010 and 2012. The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257.

  5. Cheese (recreational drug) - Wikipedia

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    A sample of cheese seized from the home of Logan Michael Howatt "Cheese" is a heroin-based recreational drug that came to the attention of the media inside and outside [1] the United States after a string of deaths among adolescents in Dallas, between 2005 and 2007.

  6. Lacing (drugs) - Wikipedia

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    Heroin is commonly cut with quinine, caffeine, dimethocaine, lidocaine, procaine, lactose, inositol, dextrose, mannitol, and starch. Other opioids are sometimes sold as heroin or cut with heroin. Fentanyl sold as or laced into heroin has made the news in the past due to the numerous fatalities it causes when it appears on the market.

  7. Heroin - Wikipedia

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    Since heroin can cause nausea and vomiting, a significant number of deaths attributed to heroin overdose are caused by aspiration of vomit by an unconscious person. Some sources quote the median lethal dose (for an average 75 kg opiate-naive individual) as being between 75 and 600 mg. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] Illicit heroin is of widely varying and ...

  8. Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat ...

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    The hottest temperature ever officially recorded on Earth was 134 F (56.67 C) in July 1913 in Death Valley, though some experts dispute that measurement and say the real record was 130 F (54.4 C ...

  9. Historic Death Valley tram tower ripped down when tourists ...

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    The two-wagon set was one of five constructed and used between 1883 and 1898, when 18 mules and two horses were used to pull two large wagons that transported sodium borate 165 miles from Death ...