Psychiatric News (9/13) reported a study found “methamphetamine is involved in an increasing number of treatment admissions for heroin, especially among adolescents.” The findings, published in Addiction, involve “data from more than 3.5 million treatment admissions for heroin between 2008 and 2017.” The data show “in 2017, individuals aged 12 to 24 had the highest rates of admissions for heroin use involving methamphetamine of all the age groups examined: 27.8% of heroin treatment admissions for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years involved methamphetamine, and 17.4% of heroin treatment admissions for young adults aged 18 to 24 involved methamphetamine.” Heroin treatment admissions involving methamphetamine were higher for women than men, at 15.1 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively.
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— “Methamphetamine Involved in Rising Number of Heroin Treatment Admissions, Psychiatric News, September 13, 2019