Join Together News Roundup for June 1, 2010

Cutting out the middleman: A new study says that heroin addicts who don’t respond to methadone can benefit from heroin maintenance … Highly pure heroin from Mexico is causing more overdoses in the U.S. … An energy drink called “Four Loko” has 12 percent alcohol … Some doctors won’t perform elective surgery on smokers, citing liability concerns and risk of complications.