Fact Sheets/Alerts

• National Institute on Drug Abuse, DrugFacts: Heroin
• Cuyahoga County: Heroin & Fentanyl Related Deaths in Cuyahoga County

Journal Articles

• Prevalence and Correlates of Heroin-Methamphetamine Co-Injection Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Other Resources

• Parents Injected Children With Heroin as "Feel Good Medicine," Police Say (November 2016)

• Huffington Post:Heroin Addiction

• This is Unprecedented: 174 Heroin Overdoses in 6 Days in Cincinnati. (August 2016)

• West Virginia City has 27 Heroin Overdoses in 4 Hours (August 2016)

• The Latest Overdose Outbreak Shows Just How Dangerous the Heroin Epidemic has Gotten (August 2016)

• 26 Overdoses in just Hours: Inside a Community on the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic (August 2016)

• Heroin Spiked With Elephant Sedative Linked to Akron Overdoses (July 2016)

• Ohio Report: Dealers Giving Other Drugs Away with Heroin (July 2016)

• Congress Splits Over Bill Aimed at Nation's Opioid Epidemic (July 2016)

• Heroin and Pill Overdoses Claim Immigrant Victims, Catching Families Off Guard (July 2016)

• Surge in Overdoses Prompts New Haven to Declare a Health Emergency (June 2016)

• Heroin Use in U.S Reaches "Alarming" 20-year High (June 2016)

• All Things Considered: "Drug Traffickers Flood Opioid Market With Cheaper Alternative to Heroin" (April 2016)

• 60 Minutes: "The Heroin Epidemic" Video and Script (April 2016)

• 60 MInutes: "The Heroin Epidemic" Video (April 2016)

• Fox News: What's Behind the Heroin Epidemic" (April 2016)

• Exploration of the Complex Interrelationshp Between Nonmedical Use of Presciption Opioids and Heroin Use (March 2016)

• Synthetic Drugs in the United States (February 2016)

• Drug Free: From Understanding to Action