It’s no secret that there’s a heroin epidemic occurring in the United States. Heroin is made from morphine, which belongs to a class of drugs called opioids. Opioids are...
There may be as many as 1.5 million chronic heroin users in the United States. Unfortunately, statistics are a bit slim because of the nature of the drug. According...
There’s no doubt that we are in the midst of a devastating opioid epidemic. In 2017 alone, 72,000 people died from a drug overdose. If you or someone you...
Although drug and alcohol abuse is on the rise nationally among several demographics, substance abuse among the homeless is still more prevalent than in the rest of the population....
The latest data from the CDC indicates that more than 64,000 people died of drug overdoses during 2016. Deaths involving the powerful drug fentanyl, and other synthetic opioids, more...
A recent article from the Wall Street Journal highlights the rapid growth of heroin use in America over the past decade. According to the WSJ graph (pictured here), you...
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