The
DASIS Report: New Heroin
Users Admitted to Treatment: 1992-2000
Highlights:
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In
1992, 48 percent of new heroin users age 18 to 24 reported injection
as the route of heroin administration. By 2000, almost two-thirds
(63 percent) reported injection as the route of administration for
heroin.
Other
Data on Heroin, Opiates, & Injecting Drug Use
Other
Drugs
Other
Topics
Other OAS Publications and Services
This Short
Report, The DASIS Report:
New Heroin Users Admitted to Treatment: 1992-2000, 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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