he s come out with a time magazine piece where he talks about being an ex addict and recovering addict himself and how he on a film set used to talk to phillip seymour hoffmann on what it was like. he said if one of us dies, ten more don t. it will scare off ten people. let s hope that number is at least ten. there s another number making headlines, 105. 105 are dying in the united states everyday. every single day from an overdose that involves heroin or pharmaceutical opioid. that s according to the cdc. accidental overdoses claim 30,000 lives a year, more than car accidents. as you think about that, think about whether any of this big news about phillip seymour hoffmann will scare people from buying the heroin. take a look at randy.
heroin overdoses in western pennsylvania. all of it had been laced with phentonol. two to three grains of salt mixed in with heroin could kill a seasoned heroin addi ii ii ii addict. they don t tell you it s in there. they recently seized heroin worth millions on the streets. these are photos of some of the heroin and weapons picked up. dealers are going to extremes like this woman police say was selling heroin in mcdonald s happy meals. $2 for the toy, $80 for heroin. those are making the agents job harder. sometimes it can be hidden.
she finds out they re not scared of buying it. no, they re not scared of buying it and don t be scared of using it and dying from it. it s broad daylight in philadelphia. so it s plain to see this heroin deal in the making. if you look at some of the people that just left, they re all addicts. they re looking to get their fix for the day. not just on this corner. as dea special agent david drove us around, we saw dealers and addicts at every intersection. he showed me the tiny bags the heroin is sold in under street names like bud ice, white house even dea. the pbuyers high schoolers to housewives. most of the heroin here is coming from mexican cartels. it s a cheap fix, just $10 a bag and so easy to get. here s how it works.
heroin. according to police, he had hoffmann s number in his cell phone. attorneys say all three plead not guilty. my client, by all accounts i know of, has nothing to do with phillip seymour hoffmann. these arrests have nothing to do with hoffmann s unfortunate death. the attorney representing julie annie says he has no connection to hoffmann besides watching his movies. he says she was in wrong place at the wrong thyme. the manhattan d oorks said there was no evidence he had control over the drugs. thank you for that. this is a perfect time to bring up a ant dote about someone i know.
dealers have guys on the street they call lookouts. once a buyer walks down the street, you ll have lookouts directing they re on the corner of sixth and marshal. lookouts are for police too. some are in cars honking their horns to alert the dealers. watch what happens when we show up. as you can see people walk ago way. this right here are several drug dealers on the corner. you see these guys moving down the road? we ve got a lookout. this individual here probably looking to cop bags of heroin. those guys just ran basically. they re running. they know we re here. the agent says pennsylvania heroin is the purest east of the mississippi. that still hasn t stopped some dealers from mixing it with a powerful narcotic often used to treat cancer patients. last month, 22 people died from