New Jersey searching for solutions to rampant heroin problem Tuesday May 7, 2013, 11:13 PM
BY REBECCA D. O’BRIEN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
The scene could have played out in dozens of inner cities nationwide over the past 50 years: As kids poured out of Paterson School 6 into the bustling streets of the city’s 4th Ward, a weary-eyed 17-year-old boy, his arms covered in tattoos and his face spotted with acne, left his apartment and approached a sedan idling on the corner.
His customer was waiting with a wad of $20 bills, and the boy quickly reached for bundles of heroin tucked in his pocket But the buyer — an undercover narcotics detective, sitting next to a reporter invited for a ride-along — asked about getting more. “Yeah, yeah,” the boy said, increasingly anxious, “What do you want?
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