![]() Pretty soon there are going to be bodies dropping all over the street." One guy makes his strong, another guy makes his stronger. "They are selling very powerful stuff, and they are killing each other. Madera, who lives on West 92d Street near where one of the bodies was found. "These people don't play around," said Mr. Frances Haimeck, a police spokeswoman, said it was not clear why drug dealers were selling such a pure blend of heroin.īut Eddie Madera, 36, who said he was hospitalized after using an unusually pure form of heroin, said some dealers are making the drug more potent to put other drug dealers out of business. Now they routinely contain a blend that is 40 to 60 percent pure, the police said. In the last few years, the percentage of heroin to dilutants has been increasing sharply. ![]() Fifteen years ago, packets of heroin sold in New York contained mainly dilutants and only 4 to 5 percent heroin, the police said. The police said the substance is believed to be at least 90 percent pure heroin and 10 percent dilutants, which are usually such things as lactose and powdered coffee creamer. They searched for the suppliers of the potent drug and tried to warn users - especially first-timers, who have less tolerance - of its dangers. Yesterday, as the Medical Examiner continued to run tests on the bodies, all of them male, investigators fanned out through the drug netherworld of the Lower East Side. "We believe this person fits the pattern of deaths we've been looking at," Ms. The area, dense with ferns, pine scrubs and abandoned tires, is frequented by homeless people, some passers-by said yesterday. The man, in his 40's, was found on 51st Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city Medical Examiner's Office. The latest body was discovered on Monday in midtown near a railroad track bed with sloping hills on either side. Although they came from all across Manhattan, the police say they believe all the victims bought the heroin where undercover officers bought it, on the Lower East Side. The victims included a piano tuner from TriBeCa and a man found dead in his Upper East Side apartment. They call it China Cat, an exotic name for a blend of heroin so pure it promised a perfect high, but instead killed 13 people in five days.
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