Letter to the editor by Christopher Medina-Kirchner
Recently, there has been a tremendous amount of media coverage attesting to a heroin “epidemic.” There is not, and never has been a heroin epidemic. The term epidemic has a specific meaning: a rapidly spreading outbreak of contagious disease, by extension– any rapid spread, growth, or development of a problem.
Heroin use can be measured in multiple ways, but perhaps the most common manner in which use of the drug is measured is by examining data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)…
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