Heroin addiction statistics
The Wall Street Journal reports that rural areas are seeing
a surge in heroin use. It increased in recent years and the rise comes as
Mexican heroin production. The article also notes that Officials seized 1,989
kilograms of heroin at the Southwest border, from Texas to California, in 2012.
After drug companies made their products more difficult to
crush and snort many people who were addicted to prescription painkillers
switched to heroin. Heroin is also much less expensive than pills such as oxycodone.
According to the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and
Health, the number of people who were past-year heroin users in 2011 (620,000)
was higher than the number in 2007 (373,000).
Matthew Barnes, special agent in charge of the Drug
Enforcement Administration’s Seattle division said to newspaper “Basically, you
have a generation of ready-made heroin addicts”.
“Transcends all areas of our town, It is absolutely the most
pressing issue that we face.” Skip Holbrook, the Police Chief in Huntington,
West Virginia told.
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