Director's Comments: Heroin’s Changing Face

Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on Heroin’s Changing Face. The transcript is also available. Compared to 50 years ago, today’s heroin users are older men and women who do not live in urban areas and were introduced to the drug through prescription pain medications, finds a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry.
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