How prevalent is heroin use?

How prevalent is heroin use?

Michael Jourdan (Drug Researcher) gives expert video advice on: Is heroin illegal everywhere in the world?; How does the US Controlled Substances Act classify heroin?; When did heroin become illegal in the US? and more...

Heroin use is surprisingly rare compared to the headlines that it commands regularly. Most countries have a prevalence of a couple of percent maximum. Usually it's lower than that, and the amount of people addicted to heroin will be less than half a percent or even much smaller. So it's not very many people. It's like 0.2 percent most places.