Age concern in largest ever study of heroin user deaths
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Older users of opioids such as heroin are 27 times more likely to become a victim of homicide than the general population, a study of almost 200,000 users has found. The study is the first to record age trends in opioid users' mortality and the results demonstrate that many health inequalities between users and the general population widen with age.