As the Suffolk Stranger was being sentenced, the Home Office slipped out this written answer on the street price of heroin. It’s almost halved from £74 a gram to £40 a gram. The symmetry was chilling: all the murdered women were addicts. As I write in the News of the World today the government is losing its “war on drugs” (price falls reflect softening of availability constraints) – and in Suffolk we had a glimpse of the human cost.
UK Average Drug Prices 1997-2007
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£
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As at December:
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Cocaine (per gram)
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Heroin (per gram)
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1997
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71
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74
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1998
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77
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74
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1999
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75
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65
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2000
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65
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70
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2001
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60
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63
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2002
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56
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61
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2003
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55
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62
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2004
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51
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55
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2005
|
49
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54
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2006
|
49
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50-55
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2007
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45
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40-50
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