Reduce the proportion of people who started using heroin in the past year — Data - Healthy People 2030

Status: Target met or exceeded

Most Recent Data:
0.02 percent (2019)

Target:
0.03 percent

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
0.03 percent of persons aged 12 years and over reported heroin use initiation in the past 12 months in 2017

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**Heroin use initiation in the past year**, **2017**-**2019** ^◊
(percent)
Population	2017	2018	2019
Total	0.03	0.04 CI 0.03 / 0.06 SE 0.009	0.02 CI 0.01 / 0.04 SE 0.006

Data Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), SAMHSA

Heroin use initiation in the past year by

#: Standard errors and confidence intervals are not available for this population group.

◊: Unless otherwise noted, data represent "percent, 12+ years"

†: Target is not applicable for this demographic group.

DSU: Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

DNA: Data have not been analyzed.

DNC: Data for specific population not collected.

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