FACTS
THE LATEST GATEWAY DRUGS ARE LEGAL
Graduating from prescription drug abuse to heroin, the modern addiction trend.
1 IN 15
INDIVIDUALS
who take nonmedical prescription painkillers will try heroin within 10 years.
680,000
AMERICANS
used heroin in 2013, nearly double the figure in 2007.
26 MILLION
PEOPLE
abuse opioids worldwide.
A 50%
DROP IN PRICE
for heroin since the 1980s makes it more accessible to the average American.
16,651
PEOPLE DIED
overdosing on opioid painkillers in the US in 2010, more than 3X the number two decades ago.
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