Heroin users 'often headed to hospital' | Top Stories | BigPond News

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Heroin users 'often headed to hospital' | Top Stories | BigPond News: "study of Australian heroin users has shown how the drug regularly lands them in hospital and how, for some, it will prove fatal.
The Perth-based study traced all hospital admissions of a group of heroin users over 10 years, to mid 2004.
It revealed a spike in admissions around a time of increased street availability of the addictive drug, and how women users were twice as likely as men to find themselves in a hospital bed.
'The findings of our study illustrate that young heroin users are relatively high users of acute hospital care services,' writes Professor Daniel Fatovich.
'... both for conditions related to their drug use as well as conditions experienced within the wider community.'"