… (NUPO) may inform our understanding of opioid misuse among adolescents. … We also
examined NUPO among adolescents and the association with heroin use and injection drug use (…

… among youths is strongly linked with subsequent initiation and use of heroin and increased
risk for injecting prescription … use, lifetime heroin use, lifetime injection drug use, and lifetime …

… prevalence of heroin use is increasing among adolescents in … local variation in adolescent
heroin use. Further research with … in prescription opioid misuse has led to more young people …

… heroin use and injection drug use, a related drug use behavior, not only mirrored each other
but also … In addition, we are unable to delineate youth who misused prescription opioids for …

… Groups that had greatest risk for opioid injection included: non-… of heroin, or prescription
drug abuse within the last year [9]. Risky injection practices and/or sharing of needles was also a …

… We hypothesized that youth who misused prescription opioids were more likely to report …
driving, risky sexual behaviors, and substance abuse. However, many studies examined these …

… risk of heroin use among heroin never-users, comparing … adolescents with pain reliever
misuse had higher prevalence of using each of the other substances and of ever injecting drugs. …

… For youth that are injecting opioids, safe injection practices and … reduce complications from
injection drug use. It is crucial that … epidemic, among those with a history of heroin use, most …

… opioid misuse specifically, focuses on the young adults because they have the highest …
opioids still play an important role, deaths associated with heroin use and fentanyl have …

… use of prescription medications, including among youth. Today… in addition to heroin because
they believed it reduced their … methamphetamine can be injected, placing youth at risk for …