Heroin
Today’s Heroin Epidemic
Heroin use has increased sharply across the United States among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels. Some of the greatest increases occurred in demographic groups with historically low rates of heroin use: women, the privately insured, and people with higher incomes.
Related Pages
- July 2015 CDC Vital Signs Report: Today’s Heroin Epidemic – More People at Risk, Multiple Drugs Abused
- CDC MMWR: Demographic and Substance Use Trends Among Heroin Users — United States, 2002–2013
- Vital Signs – Today’s Heroin Epidemic [PODCAST – 1:15 minutes]
- Vital Signs – Today’s Heroin Epidemic [PSA – 0:60 seconds]
- Data Brief: Drug-poisoning Deaths Involving Heroin: United States, 2000–2013
- Press Release: Heroin overdose deaths increased in many states through 2012
- HIV and Injection Drug Use in the United States
- Hepatitis C & Injection Drug Use
Additional Resources
- National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws: Naloxone Page
- MedlinePlus – Heroin
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Providers’ Clinical Support System for Medication Assisted Treatment
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA): Heroin[145KB]
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
References
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Demographic and Substance Use Trends Among Heroin Users — United States, 2002–2013. MMWR 2015; 64(26):719-725.
- Rudd RA, Seth P, David F, Scholl L. Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. ePub: 16 December 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6550e1.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse. DrugFacts: Heroin. http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/heroin.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: Opioids. http://www.samhsa.gov/atod/opioids.
- US Department of Health and Human Services. HHS takes strong steps to address opioid-drug related overdose, death and dependence. Press Release: March 26, 2015. http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2015pres/03/20150326a.html.
- Muhuri PK, Gfroerer JC, Davies C. Associations of nonmedical pain reliever use and initiation of heroin use in the United States. CBHSQ Data Review, 2013.
- Page last reviewed: August 29, 2017
- Page last updated: August 29, 2017
- Content source:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control,
- Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention