DID YOU KNOW IT WAS LIKE THIS?

I found this on the internet.I think it was from samshas website, they are one of the leading groups on addiction.it is some surpriesing info.just think if this was a study done in 1999-2000, imagine how many today.there was a kid in my old neighborhood who was caught getting high at about age 9.

1999 to 2001, an annual average of 338,000 persons aged 12 or older used a needle to inject cocaine, heroin, or stimulants during the past year. Young adults aged 18 to 25 were more likely to have injected drugs in the past year compared with youths aged 12 to 17 or adults aged 26 or older.

The last time injection drug users used a needle for injecting drugs, 14 percent of past year injection drug users knew or suspected someone else had used the needle before them and 16 percent used a needle that someone used after them. According to SAMHSA's latest National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, about 3.1 million persons reported using heroin at least once in their lifetime in 2001. During the 1990s, heroin incidence rates rose to a level not reached since the 1970s. Between 1975 and 1977, there were approximately 120,000 to 140,000 new users of heroin per year. Between 1989 and 1992, the annual number of new heroin users ranged from 55,000 to 69,000. In 1994, however, there were 110,000 new heroin users. In 2000, the last year for which incidence data are presently available, there were 146,000 new users of heroin.

Heroin Statistics

In the 25 to 49 age group, illicit drug overdose is the fourth leading cause of death, about the same number as motor vehicle crashes.

Children as young as 13 have been found involved in heroin abuse. According to statistics in 1999 heroin overdose has caused more deaths than traffic accidents.

The 1999 National Household Survey on drug abuse (NHSDA) estimated that there were 149,000 new heroin users in 1998 and that nearly 80 percent were under the age of 26.

Last year, there were approximately 84,000 visits to emergency rooms in the US due to heroin.

Over 80% of heroin users inject with a partner, yet 80% of overdose victims found by paramedics are alone.

The dependent person use between 150 - 250 milligrams per day. Divide into 3 doses.

The heroin addict spends between $150 to $200 per day to maintain a heroin addiction.

In 1998. 65% of the heroin seized in the United States originated in South America, and 17% came from Mexico.

Data from the 1999 National Household Survey on drug abuse suggest purity is partly responsible for the 75% of new heroin users who are snorting or smoking, not injecting the opiate. In 1991 the number of new users was 46%.

The 1999 NHSDA survey adjusted the average age for initiation of heroin use to just above 21 years of age. Other surveys, and experts have said many new users are between 18 to 25 years old.

According to Drug Abuse Warning Network, or DAWN, heroin and morphine accounted for 51% of drug deaths ruled accidental or unexpected in 1999.

Out of the 11,651 deaths... accidental and intentional by way of suicide... reported to DAWN by medical examiners in 1999, the most recent year for which complete statistics are available, 4,820 were the result of heroin or morphine abuse, or some combination of those and other drugs.

In 2000, as part of DAWN's year-end emergency data report, heroin related emergency room visits increased 15% from the last year.

Treatment admission rates for primary heroin abuse increased in publicly funded substance abuse treatment facilities across the nation between 1993 and 1999. In 1993, the treatment admission rate for primary heroin abuse in the United States was 95 admissions per 100,000 persons age 12 or older. By 1996, the admission rate had increase 7% to 102 per 100,000 and by 1999 it had increased by another 3% to 105 per 100,000.

The route of administration among heroin users entering treatment has been changing. In 1993, 74% of admissions for heroin abuse were injectors. By 1999, this had declined to 66%. There was an increase in admission for heroin inhalation for 23% in 1993 to 28% in 1999.......figured i put it up for yuz.

this is a report on haroin imagine cocain and other drugs on top of it.this is what I do most of my time, research on drugs, and it still amazes me each time I find new reports.mutiply the people who dont know, the families effected, people jailed, died by overdose, sucide, and so on.....it is bigger than any numbers the govt. really has.now this isnt really an old report, but from where im sitting in my little valley, people injecting went on the rise extremely fast.

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