Three persistent myths about heroin use and overdose deaths

Jane Stevens 2/11/142:12 PM

There are few areas as replete with myth as heroin use. Common misconceptions include that this is a problem of young people, that there are a large number of highly functioning "recreational" users of the drug, and that overdose deaths are due to variations in drug purity (or impurities).

The persistence of these myths is intriguing because research evidence from the past 40 years has repeatedly shown all of them to be false.

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Robert OlcottMember

Regretably, news from our European Epidemiologist friends concerning Anthrax tainted heroin--which appeared in New Scientist magazine in about 1999 or 2000, hasn't been much of a part of on-going discussions about heroin....lest a similar batch find its way to the North American continent. The street jargon in use before the New Scientist article referred to heroin as "Tragic Magic", among other descriptors...

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