One state’s department of health office has raised eyebrows with a brochure aimed at helping heroin users “stay safe.”
No one questions the motives behind the pamphlet produced by the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. The 16-page “Take Charge, Take Care: 10 Tips for Safer Use” brochure was created “to help people who are injecting drugs reduce the harm associated with this type of drug use until they are able to get into treatment and recover,” according to the agency. (more…)
It’s highly addictive and still one of the most popular drugs around, but what is heroin, what are the dangers and what does it take to kick the habit?
A drug may fade from the headlines, but it never really goes out of style. Is heroin, which became a hot drug in the ‘90s, still popular among substance abusers?
While heroin may be cheaper than beer, this inexpensive high ultimately has a very large price tag. 
Heroin use has spiked among teens as the dangerous drug becomes trendy again.