

Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Cory Monteith are two highly publicized heroin deaths in the U.S. in the past year or

Heroin is among the most commonly used opioids in the U.S. It is thought that of the 13.5 million

It is difficult to imagine a person dying of a drug overdose while incarcerated but it does happen. It was

Poisonings through drug overdose have tripled in the U.S. in the past three decades and, according to a recent report

Recent studies have shown that the demographics of heroin users have changed over the years. No longer are heroin addicts

It was around fifty years ago that researchers reported the average first time user of heroin were males living in

The world has lost many famous people to heroin, but it is not only the rich and famous who take

While there is much hand-wringing about the dangers of cannabis, a lesser-known danger is hiding behind a flurry of