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The
DASIS Report: Heroin - - Changes in How It Is Used, 1992-2002
Highlights:
- Between
1992 and 2002, inhalation as the route of administration increased
from 20% to 33% of the primary heroin admissions reported to SAMHSA's
Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS); while the proportion who injected
heroin decreased from 77% to 62%.
- Admissions
younger than 30 years of age decreased from 45% to 22% of primary
heroin inhalation admissions, and increased from 21% to 31% of primary
heroin injection admissions.
- The
proportion of heroin inhalation admissions with no prior treatment
episodes decreased from 40% to 26%; while the proportion with five
or more prior treatment episodes increased from 7% to 14%.
Reports
on heroin, opiates & injecting drug use
Reports
on treatment
Other
topics
Other
OAS publications and services
This Short
Report, The DASIS Report:
Heroin - - Changes in How It Is Used, 1992-2002 is based
on the Drug and Alcohol Services Information System
(DASIS), the primary source of national data on substance abuse treatment.
DASIS is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies
(OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA).
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