21.   But by the time his career took hold, Dion was a high school dropout and a heroin addict.

22.   But another heroin addict, who declined to be identified, said he supported the expansion of methadone-to-abstinence programs.

23.   But Kirby, a recovering heroin addict, has little money and no refrigerator, so meals are erratic.

24.   Carter, a recovered heroin addict who was so sick three years ago that she entered a hospice, says the medicines make her feel toxic.

25.   Critics say the program is deeply flawed because there is no reliable way to assess improvement in the lives of heroin addicts short of abstinence.

26.   Do we expect heroin addicts to get second jobs?

27.   Doctors like Orlaam because it adds to the limited arsenal of treatments now available for heroin addicts.

28.   Even heroin addicts in Pakistan, including Afghan refugees, say their experience is that the Taliban do not tolerate narcotics now.

29.   Faithfull became a heroin addict and lived on a wall in London.

30.   Fast moving, funny and violent, it tracks the antics of a group of heroin addicts from Edinburgh whose half-hearted attempts to rejoin society invariably fail.