ST. LOUIS, May 29 (UPI) -- Users of heroin today are white men and women in their 20s who live outside large urban areas, unlike the 1960s heroin users who were mostly young minority men in urban areas.
Theodore J. Cicero of Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues analyzed data on nearly 2,800 patients from an ongoing study that used surveys completed by patients with a heroin use or a heroin dependence diagnosis entering rehab. They also used data from 54 patients who completed a more detailed interview.