Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›The Origin of a Fix Poppy plants sprout in a Turkish field where the production of opium is legal and supposedly under tight government control. American officials estimate that 80 per cent of the heroin brought illegally into the United States originates in Turkish poppy gields. The opium is processed in secret French laboratories into the heroin sought by thousands of U.S. addicts for the "fix" their bodies demand.
The Origin of a Fix Poppy plants sprout in a Turkish field where the production of opium is legal and supposedly under tight government control. American officials estimate that 80 per cent of the heroin brought illegally into the United States originates in Turkish poppy gields. The opium is processed in secret French laboratories into the heroin sought by thousands of U.S. addicts for the "fix" their bodies demand.
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The Origin of a Fix Poppy plants sprout in a Turkish field where the production of opium is legal and supposedly under tight government control. American officials estimate that 80 per cent of the heroin brought illegally into the United States originates in Turkish poppy gields. The opium is processed in secret French laboratories into the heroin sought by thousands of U.S. addicts for the "fix" their bodies demand.

Associated Press · [ca. June 1970]

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