What The Study Did:
Survey responses from a nationally representative group of 800,000 U.S. adults were used to examine changes in heroin use, heroin injection and heroin use disorder from 2002 to 2018.
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Beth Han, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in Rockville, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2019.20844)
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