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The Orlando Sentinel reports "Heroin use in greater Orlando continues to climb far beyond experts' expectations. What once seemed dangerous experimentation by young people has evolved into a frightening level of addiction that continues to spread through the population. Law enforcement agencies have been slow to recognize the depth of the problem. Statistics have painted a less serious picture because state medical examiners' reporting procedures have virtually ignored many deaths in which heroin was a significant factor.... local investigators hadn't recognized that local addicts were shifting from snorting heroin to injecting it, a frightening sign of the growing addiction here..."