Healio (11/2, Michael) reports, “High school students with nonmedical opioid misuse may have an increased risk for heroin use later in life,” researchers concluded after conducting “a prospective study using a nationally representative sample of adolescents from 25 cohorts of 12th-graders who participated in the Monitoring the Future study and completed self-administered questionnaires from 1976 to 2000.” The 11,012 “participants were followed from 1993 through 2017, or from the ages of 18 years to 35 years.” The findings were published online Sept. 24 in a brief report in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
Related Links:
— “Opioid misuse in high school linked to heroin use in adulthood “Erin Michael, Healio, October 2, 2020