Newsweek's Cheesy Drug Story

The newest 'street drug epidemic? de jour: ?Cheese.? That is to say, Mexican tar heroin mixed with OTC cold remedies. But then drug dealers cutting their product with quasi-medicinal adulterants is nothing new for the street drug trade, and neither is people dying from using street drugs either. So why the alarmist propaganda then? (Spoiler: It's called ?cheese? because it looks like grated Parmesan cheese.)