Cory Monteith, the 31-year-old, fresh-faced star of "Glee" who died of a heroin overdose last year, is now the standard heroin user, not the exception. A new study in the journal JAMA Psychiatry reports that the demographics of the typical heroin user have changed from an inner-city junkie to a white, middle-class suburban man or woman in his or her 20s. Today's addicts often get into heroin after bouts with prescription opioids because heroin is less expensive and easier to obtain
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Charles R. Davenport, Psy.D.
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