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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Near Epidemic Level of Heroin Use Among MI Teens

Authorities throughout Michigan fear that a rise of heroin use in teenagers statewide could become an epidemic. They say the decrease in price and increase in purity is what gets kids as young as 13 hooked. The Office of National Drug Control Policy believes that "heroin is considered the most-abused and fastest-acting opiate." Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted and intravenous heroin users can spread AIDS and hepatitis by sharing needles. In Michigan, most adolescent heroin users generally come from middle- to upper-class families. Read more from the Kalamazoo Gazette.

posted by ByParents-forParents at 7:50 PM

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