Plano’s Heroin Tally 11 With Girl’s Death

A 17-year-old girl died after being removed from life support, the latest victim in a heroin outbreak that has struck the prosperous Dallas suburb of Plano. Natacha Marie Campbell passed out Saturday after a party where she took a mixture of heroin and cocaine, also called a “speedball.” Inhaled heroin has been blamed for the deaths of 11 young people from Plano since November 1996; two of the other victims were Campbell’s friends. Police worry that such overdoses may be on the rise because of heroin that can be inhaled. They believe many people are not so squeamish about ingesting it through the nose, even though that can be just as dangerous.