Heroin and nonmedical prescription opioid use among high school students in urban school districts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research on adolescent heroin use has focused on national surveillance, access, prevalence of use, and overdose deaths, however, to our knowledge, no study has examined local-level differences in the prevalence of adolescent heroin use in the context of nonmedical prescription opioid (NMPO) use. This study characterizes heroin and NMPO use among US high school students in select urban areas by sex and race/ethnicity.

Methods

Data are from 21 urban school districts that participate in CDC's Local Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. We describe 2017 prevalence estimates (and 95 % confidence intervals) of lifetime heroin and NMPO use among youth stratified by sex and race/ethnicity (i.e., White, Black, Hispanic/Latino).

Results

The highest estimates of he

SUBMITTER: Jones AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8148616 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature