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Opioid Abuse Leads to Heroin Use

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Why is this happening?

  • Among new heroin users, 75 percent report having abused prescription opioids before using heroin. (CDC)
  • Heroin availability at the retail level in many US markets is a high purity (CDC)
  • Increased heroin availability at a relatively low price (compared to prescription opioids) (CDC)
  • Prescription opioids and heroin have similar euphoric effects. (NIDA)
  • The number of heroin users has more than quadrupled during the last decade.(JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Approximately 75 percent of new heroin users are coming to heroin after having abusing prescription opioids. (CDC)
  • Heroin, on the other hand, has varying purities, adulterants, making it much easier to overdose.

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