Sentence examples for increasing use of heroin from inspiring English sources

Increasing use of heroin in parts of Africa has the potential to magnify the AIDS epidemic.

Chicago officials attribute a surge in life-threatening cases of asthma to increased use of heroin among the young.

Current theories about drug markets suggested that when heroin became less available there would be increased use of other drugs that were more readily available.

Deaths from opioid overdoses surged again last year to more than 30,000, driven by a sharp increase in the use of heroin and fentanyl.

Since the fall of 2002, a number of active-duty and retired military and C.I.A. officials have told me about increasing reports of heroin use by American military personnel in Afghanistan, many of whom have been there for months, with few distractions.

Likewise, in its 2015 assessment of the threat from heroin, the DEA reported, "Increased demand for, and use of, heroin is being driven by both increasing availability of heroin in the US market and by some controlled prescription drug (CPD) abusers using heroin".

Prisons may be high-risk environments for the initiation and use of heroin and other drugs (Boys et al. 2002).

There were no statistically significant differences in the use of heroin or prescribed methadone/buprenorphine/naltrexone by Indigenous status.

Use of heroin as an injection drug was common in all the injection heroin users (P = 0.999).

In fact, all indices of the availability and use of heroin, including deaths due to heroin overdose, rose steadily during the study period, 41 as did the number of heroin dependent people being treated by methadone maintenance.

March 18 (Reuters) - Federal drug enforcement officials on Wednesday issued a nationwide alert about the dangers of fentanyl, a powerful opioid often used to increase the potency of heroin and blamed for an "alarming" spike in deadly overdoses.