Sentence examples for heroin usage from inspiring English sources

Other recent items have included maps, created by the New York Public Interest Research Group, on the citywide distribution of school-age children, tuberculosis cases and heroin usage.

The deaths come as the authorities say they are seeing an increase in heroin usage and seizures around the city, said Bridget G. Brennan, the special narcotics prosecutor whose office handles drug prosecutions around the city.

Cocaine and heroin usage is dropping in places like the United States and Britain, partly because of educational campaigns, partly because of falling levels of purity (cocaine in Europe, for example, is often adulterated with a cattle-worming drug).

The booklet goes on to list several studies, including one from the 1970s that apparently curbed one subject's heroin usage.

To obtain a clearer picture how heroin usage can lead to death, forensic scientists Franco Tagliaro, Zeno De Battisti, and Mario Marigo of the University of Verona, Italy, and Frederick Smith of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, went back in time by examining the hair of overdose victims.

The THC-treated rats consistently increased their heroin usage, while those rats that had not been treated with THC maintained a steady level of heroin intake.

Describes heroin use at Leavenworth.

Heroin use and heroin overdoses are growing.

Rosenfeld notes, however, that the epidemic began years before the crime spike, and that most of the growth in the heroin trade and usage has been in predominantly white, rural areas apart from where the increases in homicides have been observed.

A 39-year old man with chronic hepatitis C virus infection and intravenous usage of heroin presented at the Emergency department with a swollen right arm and fever.

He began taking heroin and steadily increased his usage of the drug over time.