Teen heroin use alarms suburbs

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By Melissa Jenco, Chicago Tribune reporter July 15, 2012

The cost of heroin and the danger of using a needle to shoot it once kept many suburban teenagers away from the drug, experts say.

But those barriers have fallen in recent years, they note, leading to a rising tide of young users risking their lives with every hit.

Teen heroin use alarms suburbs