Tag Archives: heroin

Heroin has become more popular recently, because the most sought-after prescription drugs are ... much more expensive, and inexpensive heroin, especially from Mexico is filling the gap. We look at the "War on Drugs" started by Nixon, inreaction to the grwoing use of heroin in the 60s, and the current changes in demographics, with the realization that heroin is not just the drug of the inner city, the poor and disenfranchised, but rather crosses all levels of society.

After decades of uppers use, we are heading in a "downer cycle" with significant abuse and ODs being reported especially for prescription drugs like Vicodin and OxyContin, but also heroin, methadone and and even the opioid treatment drug suboxone. We look at the trend and some of the implications.

NIDA's Monitoring the Future study shows increases in use of marijuana, heroin and pharmaceuticals by adolescents; a study in Europe shows that programs like DARE are not effective; government regulators grapple to keep up with street chemists creating new designer drugs, and a discussion of psychiatry's increasing dependence on drug therapy to the exclusion of talk therapy.

Purer heroin causing significant increase in overdose deaths; doctor shopping and ways for Rx management; and the continuing issues of addictions by health care professionals

With several states are reporting a record number of deaths from opiod overdoses, and increased misuse of prescription drugs, we look at the cycle of drug-use, and what appears to be renewed period of interest in downers, both heroin and prescription drugs.

MCAT - a synthetic verson of the stimulant East African khat plant is legal and causing serious overdoses. Prescription drugs abuse can lead to heroin use. And more on the implications of legalizing marijuana.