Heroin causes car deaths
Heroin addicts cause car crashes that lead to death according to the Herald Sun on 4 May 2001 which disclosed-
- A 21 year old addict after using amphetamines and smoking heroin drove a car at 115 kph which crashed into another car.
- As a result of the crash two people were killed and four people were badly injured including the addict's former fiancee.
- The addicted driver was a convicted drug trafficker
- The addicted driver was out on bail at the time
- The speeding car the addicted driver was driving was stolen
- The addicted driver had previously lost a sister from a heroin overdose
- The police had not chased the stolen vehicle being driven by the addicted driver
- The addicted driver was convicted of two counts of culpable driving, four counts of negligently causing serious injury and one count of possession of a drug of dependence.
THE DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS-
More detoxification & rehabilitation that gets illicit drug users drug free.
Court ordered and supervised detoxification & rehabilitation.
Less illicit drug users, drug pushers and drug related crimes.
HEROIN FACT SHEET 5
