Estimating heroin use in an urban area.
The purpose of this pilot project was to develop a verifiable method of empirically estimating heroin usage in a defined geographic area. If such a methodology could be constructed, appropriate officials could employ the procedure to promote planning, prevention, and education projects, and to evaluate on-going programs. Thus, should such a technique be developed, it could replace more traditional and empirically unconfirmed methods. Employing data furnished by local law-enforcement social, and medical agencies, a questionnaire was developed, pretested, and applied to a selected sample of the stipulated population.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001130:Arizona; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014505:Urban Population