Epidemiology and Ethnographic Survey of "Cheese" Heroin Use among Hispanics in Dallas County Lead Node: Texas (Lead Investigator information forthcoming)

This study is in collaboration with the NIH National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities and will be conducted in the Texas Node. The study will focus on the development and implementation of a survey to further characterize the use of "cheese" heroin among Hispanic youth in Dallas County. The survey will be administered to active cheese heroin users in CTPs within the Texas Node. It will characterize factors related to route(s) of administration, progression to physical dependence (opioid withdrawal syndrome), progression to IV drug use (HIV risk behavior), parental drug use, healthcare utilization, school performance, and level of assimilation (both primary user and familial). Additionally, the Addiction Severity Index will be applied to characterize the level of legal, social, psychiatric, occupational, medical, family.

This study is in the development stage.

(Description based on NIDA Director's Report to the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse - February 2008.)

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