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"It's ubiquitous," Dr. Andrew Solomon, said. "[And yet] I think the public doesn't really understand it well at all."

Users’ chances of becoming addicted [to opioids] increase if they are white, male, young and unemployed and if they have co-occurring psychiatric disorder, says Dr. Carl Hart.

Telomere length is mostly inherited from our parents, Dr. Ezra Susser explained in an editorial in JAMA Pediatrics.

Heroin use in the United States has always been relatively low, Dr. Carl Hart said. He estimated 500,000 heroin users nationwide, compared to 22 million marijuana smokers and 2 million cocaine users.