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What are street heroin users really like? This question has perplexed policy makers for several years and is likely to do so in the near future as well. The public image holds that the addict is so physically dependent upon heroin that this drug must be injected several times per day and in large quantities or else the person will become severely sick. In order to obtain the heroin, the user must generally resort to crime to finance this habit; habit sizes of $100 per day or more are claimed by many heroin users and believed to be typical by the public.
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Johnson, B.D. (1984). Empirical Patterns of Heroin Consumption Among Selected Street Heroin Users. In: Serban, G. (eds) Social and Medical Aspects of Drug Abuse. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6320-0_11
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