The Nation - News from March 4, 1985
A 27-year-old District of Columbia man has become the seventh fatality reported in connection with a weekend heroin overdose epidemic in the Washington area, police said. The source of the drug, which has hospitalized 15 others, is still unknown. But authorities fear that the highly potent or contaminated batch of heroin may have been distributed regionally.
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