International Statistics

It was estimated 13.5 million people in the world use opioids including 9.2 million who use it.

In 2007, Afghanistan was estimated 93% of the world’s opium supply. Opium is the raw material for heroin supply. It’s has a total export value of $4 billion. Traffickers received the three quarter and about quarter to afghan opium farmer..

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2007) reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US in 2007. Other estimates give figures as high as 900,000.

According to a 2008 report from the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction opiates, basically heroin, were involved in four of every five drug-related deaths in Europe.

About 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US were opiates and basically heroin.

Some children smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol when still very young. By the time they graduate from high school. Some later move on to more addictive substances.

We cannot assume that all children who smoke marijuana today will become heroin addicts tomorrow. But the danger does exist. And long-term studies of high school students show that few young people use other drugs without first having tried marijuana. Once a person can no longer get the initial “rush” he seeks, he begins to increase drug consumption or to look for something stronger.

According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2007) at the aged of 12 to 17 in the US were 9.5% were current illegal drug users. The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (2008) reported that college student of marijuana use had doubled and as also of the use of cocaine and heroin.

In 2008, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, an estimated 16 million people worldwide used opiates opium, morphine, heroin and synthetic opiates.

Today, 12 years old could be already a young addict. They could be appear smart because they use needle marks on their arms to bear heroin use.

Heroin today is more tempting because it is more affordable and easier to consume. The number of teenagers in America between 1995 and 2002 usually at aged 12 to 17, where already using heroin at some point in their lives increased by 300%.