21.   Lotsof said ibogaine allows addicts, especially heroin users, to put aside their fears of withdrawal and begin the process of detoxification.

22.   More than half will test positive, as do the larger population of San Francisco heroin users who have been taking the drug at least five years.

23.   Most heroin users today are still old-timers, battered by decades of addiction, arrest and rehab.

24.   Police say that they usually arrest young heroin users as soon as they catch them, rather than dragging out the investigations and risking overdoses.

25.   She said only three of the victims were known heroin users, raising the possibility that some people did not realize they were ingesting drugs mixed with the opiate.

26.   So industrial states with large numbers of urban heroin users squeezed the source of needles by barring sales without a prescription.

27.   Some analysts say there is only anecdotal evidence that the number of heroin users is increasing.

28.   Some estimates of the number of heroin users run to the millions.

29.   Statistics showing an increase in the number of emergency room cases involving heroin users can be misleading because the same users may enter hospitals more frequently.

30.   Such sentiments may seem surprising coming from a director whose films luxuriate in the libertine lives of heroin users, masturbating transvestites and polymorphous-perverse male prostitutes.