What is the statistics for the % of herion userers who do not recover once addicted?

Submitted by bbycks7gry Tue 11/22/2011

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Any such statistic you find

Submitted by KopperNikki on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 19:02.

Any such statistic you find on that will inevitably be flawed because who's keeping up with heroin users once they leave a facility? Nobody is. I think you would have to go with a general stat that you might get from Hazelton/AA groups, which is something like 17% or so. Keep in mind that most addicts relapse at least once, often a few times.

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Nikki

I answered that incorrectly.

Submitted by KopperNikki on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 19:03.

I answered that incorrectly. Flip that statistic to be 83% or so that don't recover, at least the first time around.

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Nikki

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