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Information About Heroin Addiction
Although
the current epidemic of cocaine use has commanded more attention, heroin use remains
a serious problem in the United States. For example, the number of hospital emergency
department visits related to the use of heroin rose from 38,100 in 1988 to 63,000
in 1993, an increase of 65 percent. In addition, some researchers have noted that
snorting and smoking heroin may be growing in popularity as alternatives to injecting
the drug. In a recent study, NIDA researchers
confirmed that the addictive effects of heroin can be obtained by smoking the
drug, although smoking is a less efficient route of administration than injecting.
The findings might help explain anecdotal reports of heroin smoking among users
in some large cities in the United States.
Estimated Total Number
of Heroin-Related
Hospital Emergency Department Visits
1988-1993 
Source Preliminary Estimates
from the Drug Abuse
Warning Network 1993 Preliminary Estimates of Drug-Related
Emergency Department Episodes Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration,
December, 1994
In the study, scientists in NIDA's Division of
Intramural Research (DIR) at the Addiction Research Center in Baltimore gave heroin
to human volunteers via a computer-controlled smoking device that delivered precise
doses of the drug. The effects of four separate doses of smoked heroin were compared
to those produced by four intravenous doses of heroin. "The
effects were similar but not equal on a gram-to-gram basis," says Dr. Edward
Cone, who headed the study. By either route, heroin was detected in the subjects'
blood within 1 to 2 minutes of administration. For similar doses of the drug,
however, smoking produced lower levels of heroin in the blood. The onset of heroin-induced
miosis, the constriction of the pupils, took as long when the drug was injected
as when it was smoked. By either route, low and moderate doses of heroin produced
miosis within 5 to 15 minutes; for high doses, smoking and injecting both caused
miosis within 2 minutes. After similar periods, the subjects also reported that
by either route they could "feel" the drug and perceive its pleasurable
effects. Dr. Cone says the findings suggest
that people who smoke heroin may do so because the pharmacological effects are
similar to those they obtain by injecting the drug. Although
reliable epidemiological data on heroin smoking are not available, says Dr. Cone,
some researchers believe that the practice may be growing in popularity among
heroin users, due in part to a fear of HIV infection. Needle sharing, a common
practice among injecting drug users, accounts for many cases of HIV infection.
Smoking heroin also may make it easier for some people to start using the drug,
particularly those who have been deterred by the prospect of injecting themselves
with needles. "Many people just
hate the idea of needles," says Dr. Wayne Wiebel, a NIDA-funded researcher
at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Dr. Wiebel notes that there have been
sporadic reports of smoking among heroin users in Chicago and other large cities
in recent years. However, he says, heroin smoking does not appear to be on the
verge of becoming widespread.
Increasing purity of heroin makes
snorting/inhaling a
realistic alternative to injecting and may be contributing
to reported increases in hospital emergency department visits.
"It is certainly not a trend,
and it is not showing up in a major way," Dr. Wiebel says. Rather, the main
shift seems to be a decline in the proportion of users who are injecting heroin
and an increase in those who are snorting or inhaling it. This shift, he says,
may be contributing to increases in anecdotal reports of first-time heroin use
among teenagers and young adults in U.S. inner cities. He adds that the increasing
use of heroin among this age group eventually might supplant the cocaine epidemic
in those areas. Nationwide household
and school drug use surveys have not documented the shift in usage patterns or
the increase in heroin use among young people that Dr. Wiebel and other drug abuse
professionals have observed. Heroin statistics are difficult to obtain from these
instruments because heroin use involves less than 1 percent of the population
and many heroin users are not part of a traditional household. Although
officials caution that estimates of drug-related hospital emergency visits could
increase or decrease over time for reasons unrelated to the size of the drug-using
population, these estimates at least hint of a change in heroin use in recent
years. Between 1992 and 1993, heroin-related hospital emergency department visits
increased by 35 percent, from 5,900 to 7,900 among people ages 18 to 25, according
to the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), a national survey conducted by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). During the same period,
cocaine-related hospital emergencies changed little among this age group. The
DAWN survey also found that, between 1988 and 1993, the number of hospital emergency
department visits related to snorting or sniffing heroin jumped by 470 percent,
from 1,100 to 6,000. SAMHSA officials point out, however, that despite this increase,
hospital emergencies related to snorting composed just 20 percent of the increase
in heroin-related emergencies over this period and still constitute less than
10 percent of the total number of heroin-related hospital emergencies.
Heroin-Related
Hospital Emergency Department Visits
by Reported Route of Administration
1988-1993
Source
Preliminary Estimates from the Drug Abuse
Warning Network 1993 Preliminary
Estimates of Drug-Related
Emergency Department Episodes Substance Abuse and
Mental
Health Services Administration, December, 1994
Regardless of how users take the drug, an
increase in the purity of heroin could be one reason for the increase in hospital
emergency department visits. According to a report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration, the purity of an ounce of heroin purchased on the street rose
from 34 percent in 1990 to 66 percent in 1993. The greater purity of heroin could
result in more overdoses and, in turn, more hospital visits.
Both
Dr. Wiebel and Dr. Cone say they believe that the increasing purity of heroin
also is probably one factor that accounts for the reports of higher rates of snorting
and smoking heroin. High-purity heroin makes getting high easier for people who
use these less efficient routes of administration. Source
Jenkins, A.J.; Keenan, R.M.; Henningfield, J.E.; and Cone, E.J. Pharmacokinetics
and pharmacodynamics of smoked heroin. Journal of Analytical Toxicology 18:317-330,
1994. top
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