A staggering eighty percent of new heroin users begin using the drug after becoming addicted to opiods; powerful prescription pain killers.
From the National Institute on Drug Abuse: "Medications that fall within this class include hydrocodone (e.g., Vicodin), oxycodone (e.g., OxyContin, Percocet), morphine (e.g., Kadian, Avinza), codeine, and related drugs."
Aljazeera America takes an in-depth look at the opioid epidemic that is currently gripping the U.S., and offers great insight into the dramatic rise in opioid and heroin addition that is affecting people of all walks of life.
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