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Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) .
This paper presents data from a variety of sources including the Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG), a network of researchers from major metropolitan areas of the United States and selected foreign countries; The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), which consists of two data collection efforts: data on drug abuse deaths reported by medical examiners in participating metropolitan areas and data collected on drug-related visits to a national probability sample of hospital emergency department; and the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). The author analyzes this data and gives a description of heroin and effects of use, characteristics of heroin users, patterns of use, and provides a user-friendly graphical representation of the trends in heroin use.
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