The changing face of heroin use in the United States: a retrospective analysis of the past 50 years.

J Cicero, Theodore; S Ellis, Matthew; L Surratt, Hilary; P Kurtz, Steven

doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.366

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The changing face of heroin use in the United States: a retrospective analysis of the past 50 years.

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Authors:

Theodore J Cicero

Matthew S Ellis

Hilary L Surratt

Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Over the past several years, there have been a number of mainstream media reports that the abuse of heroin has migrated from low-income urban areas with large minority populations to more affluent suburban and rural areas with primarily white populations. OBJECTIVE: To examine the veraci...

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