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Heroin use growing in the suburbs
BALTIMORE
(AP) While heroin is often
thought of as an urban problem,
state officials say they are in
creasingly finding that it is the
drug of choice among suburban
teen-agers.
“Heroin use across the board in
adolescents and adults is rising
and at a more rapid rate than in
the past,” said Bill Rusinko, chief
of management for the state
agency, which monitors heroin
related admissions to Maryland
drug abuse treatment programs.
The increased use is due large
ly to more youths “snorting,” or
inhaling, heroin, he said.
The largest increase occurred
in Baltimore County, where the
number of teens in treatment for
snorting heroin bolted from 21 in
fiscal 1993 to 60 in fiscal 1995.
Some drug abuse counselors
say they’re worried that teen
abusers will soon give up snort
ing and start injecting the drug
to get a greater high, a risk that
exposes them to contracting
AIDS through unsafe needles.
“We have to be careful not to hit
the panic button, but there is con
cern because a trend upward is
definitely there,” said David
Putsche, coordinator ofadolescent
services for the Alcohol and Drug
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the number of teens under 18 admitted to
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All eight teens treated for her
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