HEROIN: Fatal Addiction

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Heroin use across Pa.

Annual average heroin use in the past year, among people over 12


0.1 percent

0.3 percent

0.5 percent

0.7 percent  

Source: SAMHSA, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2006-2011.
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A Growing Epidemic

  • Lethal road begins at the medicine cabinet
  • Pottsgrove grads, best friends overdose 7 months apart
  • What is heroin?
  • Pa. No. 3 state for heroin use

Court of Last Chances

  • Judge doesn't sugarcoat addicts' battle to survive
  • Spring-Ford addict: My 'I nevers' became my life
  • Drug court reduces crime by getting addicts clean

Fueling Crime in the Suburbs

  • Police see heroin toll on users, families, towns
  • Heroin making its way into high schools
  • Heroin-fueled crimes include child's suffocation death

Help is Available

  • Methadone clinic treats addiction with chance for normalcy
  • Recovery houses offer addicts a chance, but heroin fights back
  • Gateway to heroin often legally prescribed drugs
  • The cost of staying high vs. getting clean

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