[jowsie]

My information on the scene is extremely out of date, but 10 years ago it was more common for users to get some prescription morphine and convert it to heroin themselves. There was also a pretty big market for illicit acetic acid because of this, too.

This was because importation was difficult, making any imported product vastly more expensive than what you could make yourself.

[girvo]

Homebake is long gone. To be honest it was on the way out even a decade ago, though you're right it was slightly more common.

These days the bulk of the heroin in the country is brought in from Asia, controlled by Chinese and Vietnamese crime syndicates.