The following tips may be helpful to you in getting your test results: 1  Give it time. 2  Let your doctor know who, what, when, where, and how. 3  Make an appointment. 4  Make it clear that you want to know the results â even if everythingâs OK. 5  Keep records.
What most people don't realize is that the majority of long-term, hard-core drug addicts are dying in their 40s and 50s. The latest studies show that the life expectancy of a drug addict is 15 to 20 years after they start being a drug addict. So what we see is a replenishment of the population, a new crop of addicts. There are no 90-year-old heroin addicts. Most of those we were recording 20 years ago have died.
Heroin is a killer no matter how it is taken. Myth: Heroin is a drug abused only by older drug usersFact: For many years a large percentage of heroin users were aged 30 or older, but that number is changing. Heroin users are beginning to skew younger -and the average age of heroin users is now 21 years old.