Average Age of Heroin Abusers is Dropping

[Dion Silva]

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the majority of heroin and opioid
drug abusers are between the ages of 18 and 25.This new class of users
has access to heroin that is much stronger and more pure than heroin
of the past.While heroin in the 1970s was about 3 percent pure,today’s
heroin has a purity level of 60 percent.

Unfortunately, because today’s heroin is more potent,there is a
greater risk of overdose than in the past. In November of 2010, ABC
News reported on the growing problem of teenage heroin addiction and
the increase in overdoses in Seattle,Washington and in small towns
throughout the midwest.

The highest concentrations of heroin abusers are currently in the
northeastern portion of the country,with methamphetamine abuse
dominating the west.Due to the increasing quantities of heroin flowing
across the border from Mexico,it may be just a matter to time before
this new surge of heroin abuse sweeps the entire nation.

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