Polydrug use among heroin users in Cleveland, OH

The heroin epidemic is rapidly growing in the United States and poses a significant problem in Ohio (Daniulaityte et al., 2017; Penm et al., 2017; Winstanley et al., 2016). In 2016, more than 4,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in Ohio, a 33% increase compared to 2015 (Ohio Department of Health, 2018), and Ohio ’s age-adjusted drug overdose mortality rate of 39.1 per 100,000 was the second highest the United States (National Center for Health Statistics, 2017). Although overdose deaths from prescription opioids have decreased in recent years in Ohio and the rest of the United States, deaths from heroin u se have continued to steadily increase since 2010 (Rudd et al., 2014).

Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - August 22, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Georgiy Bobashev, Kira Tebbe, Nicholas Peiper, Lee Hoffer Source Type: research