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Heroin tops list of first opioid of use
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30256
Subject(s) - heroin , opioid , addiction , opioid addiction , opioid abuse , medical prescription , heroin addiction , medicine , psychiatry , opioid epidemic , psychology , pharmacology , drug , receptor
For the first time, data shows that heroin and not a prescription opioid has become the most common opioid of initial use, suggesting that addiction treatment programs likely will be seeing a younger, sicker patient base — if these individuals ever make it to treatment at all.
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