Young Adults and Heroin
Posted on August 31, 2008
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Young adults are turning to heroin with alarming frequency in the New York area. The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) ranks heroin as well as cocaine as the most serious drug threat as heroin seizures have more than doubled in the New York area.
Research has shown that nationally around 1% of students have tried heroin in the past year. Heroin use is increasing dramatically in young adults in suburban and rural areas. Because of this more and more young adults are ending up in drug rehab, emergency rooms, jail or the morgue. A contributing factor is that the purity of heroin is much higher than it was in the past. Also the street price of heroin has gone down.
A very worrying statistic for parents is that heroin use among teenagers is increasing. One of the reasons that heroin use has become more popular with teens is because of the purity they can now snort it rather than inject it. Therefore more and more young people are willing to try it. Parents are looking for long term drug rehabilitation facilities to beat the addiction as research shows that young people who start off snorting the drug often move on to injecting it. This increases the chance of overdose and death. Often long term drug rehab is the only way to beat addiction to heroin.
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