Persian Heroin in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1977-1980
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
- Vol. 8 (1) , 123-129
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00952998109016924
Abstract
A new type of heroin has increased in frequency in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA, in the past 3 yr. Persian heroin, coming to this country from Southwest Asia, differs from commonly-seen heroin in several ways: distinctive marketing channels, different routes of administration, increased purity, more severe withdrawal and different demographic characteristic of users. Persian heroin users (human) tend to be younger and more likely to be white and unemployed as compared to other heroin users.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: