Heroin addiction

Painkiller use breeds new face of heroin addiction

The number of teenagers seeking treatment for heroin abuse has skyrocketed, and the number of deaths from heroin among high school and college-age kids more than doubled from 1999 to 2009. NBC's Kate Snow reports.

Yardena Schwartz
NBC News

Chicago Police Capt. John Roberts never thought that moving to the suburbs would mean that his 14-year-old son Billy would immediately be introduced to drugs. And never did he ever imagine that Billy, a high school athlete, would even think of touching heroin.

After 33 years in the Chicago Police Department, Roberts was finally ready to retire. He couldn’t wait to move his family out to the suburbs, where he thought his kids would live in a safer environment, attend better schools and be sheltered from some of the ugly realities of city life.

But after growing addicted to prescription painkillers, Billy and his friends could no longer afford their habit. They soon turned to heroin, which they could buy for a tenth of the price of their favorite pill, Oxycontin. Billy was 19 when he died of a heroin overdose, but he wasn’t the only one of his friends to suffer that fate.
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Edit to add date: June 19, 2012

Yes there was/is a date. On the left hand side, top area, right now it says "15 hours" and it's also in the link in msnbc articles. Do the math Seahorse, you've shown interest in geneology and using census records, both use names, DATES and etc. that folks before us have recorded. The same here. Posts become a record. MuffyBee