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(Medical-NewsWire.com, July 31, 2013 ) Austin, TX -- The death of Cory Monteith, star of the TV show “Glee,” brings into the limelight the new profile of heroin users. In the past, heroin users were typified as hard-core addicts but recently the drug has attained the status that cocaine once had.
Monteith fits the new profile of heroin users, white males less than forty years old, according to statistics accumulated from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Most Americans are not aware of these new drug use trends among young adults, teens and even kids. Director of toxicology at the University of California San Diego Medical Center and emergency room physician, Dr. Richard Clark states, “I deal with drug users every day. The stereotypical user on the street? That’s the past as far as heroin use in the United States is concerned. Lots of people are using it these days – kids, teenagers, white-collar workers.”
Ten years ago, only 198 teens and young adults between 15 and 24 years of age died from heroin overdose. In 2009 that figure has risen to 510 according to The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which has documented an 80 percent boost in first time heroin use among teens since 2002.
Heroin was once only a product of Southwest Asia and the Far East making it expensive and in short supply. Now it is smuggled into the United States from Mexico and South America making it easier to get and cheaper. Heroin production and transportation channels are also
increasing from Afghanistan sources since the military activities in the area began at the turn of the century.
In the late 1980s through the 1990s, AIDS curbed the use of heroin, since users were hesitant to inject the drug. Heroin is now often smoked or snorted, putting it on a popularity and acceptance level with cocaine.
Research scientist at the University of Washington School of Public Health, Caleb Banta-Green says, “People think it’s totally impossible that they could know somebody who could be on that trajectory,” Monteith… “is what a heroin user looks like.”
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