Narconon of Georgia  

Authorities break up a drug ring that weekly sold hundreds of thousands of small bags of heroin.

33 pounds of heroin worth $30 million and stuffed inside Build-A-Bear toys was recently seized in a drug bust.  Authorities say the arrests broke up a drug ring that weekly sold hundreds of thousands of small bags of drugs. 

Heroin was once marketed as a name brand under Bayer in 1898 and now apparently is also brand named – but the vendor operates illegally.  The drugs from this bust were stamped with brand names such as Barack Obama, Swine Flu and Crime 360.

Not unlike Bayer Aspirin a century ago, the vendors of heroin have developed a marketing campaign to ensure that heroin continues to move through the United States. Colombian drug organizations made a strategic decision earlier in this decade to cultivate opium poppy, produce heroin, and sell it through local drug dealers. This strategy also involved the use of modern marketing techniques. The repeat business of heroin is guaranteed with its addictive qualities which result in huge drug abuse rates.   

The Heroin “brands” are known as stamp bags and often entice younger people to begin using the drug.

Mike Manko, a spokesman for Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said:

“The relatively low price for a stamp bag and the use of cartoon characters and other familiar images on the bags can make heroin alluring to young people.”

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