Cincinnati Enquirer – Less heroin, more meth in younger adults

Far fewer people older than 25 started using heroin last year, but the decline among young adults was almost imperceptible, and the 18- to 25-year-old age group also saw a big jump in meth, a new federal report shows.

The new report shows the number of new heroin users in 2016 was more than 170,000, more than double the 81,000 new users in 2017.