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

By T. Cicero, Matthew S. Ellis, H. Surratt, S. Kurtz. JAMA psychiatry, 2014

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century (2015, background): “Tighter controls on opioid prescription brought some substitution into heroin and, in this period, the US saw falling prices and rising quality of heroin, as well as availability in areas where heroin had been previously largely unknown (14, 24, 25).”
• Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths--United States, 2000-2014. (2016, background): “The increased availability of heroin, combined with its relatively low price (compared with diverted prescription opioids) and high purity appear to be major drivers of the upward trend in heroin use and overdose (6).”