Friday, November 15, 2002

Heroin Reaches the Well-to-Do Adolescent Population
Article in the Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter at Medscape - "The Caron Foundation, one of the nation's foremost rehabilitation centers, has witnessed a dramatic change in the demographics of its adolescent patients. Recently there has been an increased number of young heroin addicts entering Caron's adolescent treatment center. In 1995 patients admitted were almost exclusively male; now, female patients whose drug of choice is heroin outnumber males by two to one. In general, this new generation of heroin users is monied, suburban and young."