Heroin
death rate in America QUADRUPLES in last decade - and the numbers of women and
middle class addicts are up too
- Number of
U.S. heroin users has grown by nearly 300,000 over a decade
- Nearly 3
in every 1,000 Americans used heroin in the previous year
- Heroin use
more than doubled among whites, leveled off
in other groups
- Heroin
death rate quadrupled over a decade, reaching nearly 8,300 in 2013
- Heroin has
become a popular, cheaper alternative to more opiod prescriptions like
OxyContin, which have become more tightly regulated
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The number of U.S. heroin users has grown by
nearly 300,000 over a decade, with the bulk of the increase among whites,
according to a new government report.
Experts think the increase was driven by
people switching from opioid painkillers to cheaper heroin.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention released the report Tuesday. It's based on annual face-to-face
surveys of about 67,000 Americans — the government's main source of data on use
of illegal drugs.
In recent surveys, nearly 3 in every 1,000
Americans said they used heroin in the previous year. That's up from under 2
per 1,000 about a decade ago, a 62 percent increase which translates to
hundreds of thousands more people, government researchers said.
The findings mirror trends seen in earlier
reports, which noted marked increases in heroin use in people who are white and
living outside of major cities, said Katherine Keyes, a Columbia University who
researches drug abuse issues.
But the new report offers some additional
details about people using heroin, government scientists said.
While heroin use more than doubled among
whites, it seemed to level off in other racial and ethnic groups, the report
found.
But it grew among different income levels, in
different parts of the country. And the rate of heroin use doubled in women — a
more dramatic rise than what was seen in men.
For years, officials have focused their worry
on misuse of prescription 'opioid' painkillers like Vicodin and OxyContin.
Experts say recent restrictions on prescribing such painkillers may be reducing
illicit supplies of them at a time when the heroin supply has been increasing.
Heroin has become a popular alternative. It
is essentially the same chemical as that in the prescription painkillers, but
it costs roughly five times less on the street, said CDC Director Dr. Tom
Frieden.
'An increasing number of people are primed
for heroin use because they were addicted to an opioid painkiller,' Frieden
said.
The new report found that people who abused
opioid painkillers were 40 times more likely to abuse heroin.
The heroin death rate quadrupled over a
decade, reaching nearly 8,300 in 2013, with most of the fatal overdoses
involving other drugs at the same time — most often cocaine.
Deaths involving opioid painkillers have been
leveling off but continue to be more common than heroin-related deaths,
government statistics show.
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That
total includes 476 illegal aliens (23%) who had re-entered the United States
after previously being deported, federal officials said
Monday at a joint press conference by ICE and the Department of
Homeland Security.
*
Of the
2,059 criminals arrested, 1,013 -- almost half -- had been convicted of more
than one crime; and 1,036 had been convicted of a felony, including voluntary
manslaughter, child pornography, robbery and kidnapping.
*
Of the
total 2,059 criminals arrested, 58 are known gang members or affiliates, and 89
are convicted sex offenders.
*
An
additional 912 illegal aliens were arrested for multiple "significant
misdemeanors," mostly repeated convictions for driving under the
influence.
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THE HEROIN.