1986 NBA Draft: Len Bias

1986 NBA Draft: Len Bias – Len Kevin Bias was an American college basketball player who suffered a fatal cardiac arrhythmia that resulted from a cocaine overdose less than 48 hours aft…

Heroin trafficker who prosecutors say supplied heroin that killed Portland …
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The law is named for a University of Maryland basketball player who died of a cocaine overdose in 1986. Navarrette-Aguilar's court-appointed lawyer, Per Olson, had argued in court papers that no forensic evidence linked heroin from Navarrette-Aguilar … Read more on The Oregonian

Kids, families take the collateral damage of mandatory minimums, critics argue
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The mid-1980s saw the sudden emergence of crack cocaine – cheap, lucrative and suddenly pervasive on the streets. Battles over turf for crack markets led to violence, and the 1986 overdose death of Len Bias, a University of Maryland basketball star who … Read more on Wicked Local Hudson