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Study: Teens abusing painkillers are more likely to later use heroin<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n Leigh Hopper<\/span>\n \n July 08, 2019<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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Researches from the Keck School of Medicine of USC examine an unforeseen side effect of the nation\u2019s opioid epidemic: Adolescent heroin users.<\/h2>\n

The new study, published in the July 8 issue of JAMA Pediatrics<\/a>, shows that teens who use prescription opioids to get high are more likely to start using heroin by high school graduation.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrescription opioids and heroin activate the brain\u2019s pleasure circuit in similar ways,\u201d says senior author Adam Leventhal, PhD<\/a>, a professor of preventive medicine and psychology and director of the USC Institute for Addiction Science<\/a> at the Keck School. \u201cTeens who enjoy the \u2018high\u2019 from prescription opioids could be more inclined to seek out other drugs that produce euphoria, including heroin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leventhal says the study, conducted from 2013-2017, is the first to track prescription opioid and heroin use in a group of teens over time. In 2017, 9% of the nation\u2019s 47,600 opioid overdose deaths occurred in people under the age of 25, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition to overdose, health risks of heroin use are devastating and include severe addiction, hepatitis C, HIV and other infections.<\/p>\n

Surveying 3,298 freshmen<\/h3>\n

Using twice-yearly surveys to track high schoolers\u2019 use of various drugs, researchers followed 3,298 freshmen from 10 Los Angeles-area high schools through their senior year. Participants were asked about their previous and current use of prescription painkillers \u2014 such as Vicodin, Oxycontin and Percocet \u2014 to get high.<\/p>\n

The researchers also asked the students if they used heroin or other substances like marijuana, alcohol, cigarettes, methamphetamine and inhalants. They made statistical adjustments to account for differences in family environment, psychological disposition, family history of substance use and other factors associated with nonmedical prescription opioid use.<\/p>\n

Of the nearly 3,300 students in the study, 596 reported using prescription opioids to get high during the first 3.5 years of high school. The researchers found that prescription painkiller use made a big difference in who later used heroin: 13.1% of current prescription opioid users and 10.7% of previous prescription opioid users went on to use heroin by the end of high school. Only 1.7% of youth who did not use prescription opioids to get high had later tried heroin by the end of high school.<\/p>\n

Kids overlooked in opioid epidemic discussion<\/h3>\n

\u201cAdolescents are sometimes overlooked in the opioid epidemic discussion,\u201d says first author Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD<\/a>, an assistant professor of clinical surgery at the Keck School and a pediatric surgeon at Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles. \u201cThe association between nonmedical opioid use and later heroin use in youth is concerning and warrants further research and health policy interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n

To further confirm their results, the researchers also evaluated whether marijuana, alcohol and methamphetamine use were linked to later heroin use. But the association between prescription opioids and heroin use was stronger than the associations for heroin use with other substances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we can\u2019t definitively conclude that there is a cause-and-effect relation, there may be something unique about opioid drugs that makes youths vulnerable to trying heroin,\u201d says Leventhal. \u201cThe results do not appear to be driven by the tendency of some teens to act out, rebel, or experiment with many types of drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01-DA033296) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (KL2TR001854).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":2891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81,56,57,20],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-department-of-population-and-public-health-sciences","tag-featured","tag-recent","tag-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nStudy: Teens abusing painkillers are more likely to later use heroin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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