Heroin Addiction - Prevalent Use but Less Frequently Searched

Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug used by diverse age and socio-economic groups. It is the most abused and most rapidly acting of the opiates. Oddly, the search frequency for “heroin addiction” (over 74,000/year), is alarmingly low in comparison with “alcohol addiction” (approximately 224,000/year) and “cocaine addiction” (around 115,000/year). This insight evokes many questions, considering that the prevalence of dependence or abuse of heroin was 53% of specific substance users in the United States, in 2002. (http://www.cocaineaddiction.com/cocaine_coke.html)

What information are those affected by heroin addiction looking for? Cutting edge technology allows for relationships between thousands of pieces of raw data to be collated into valuable resources for treatment programs, global trends, addictions research, and professional development.

Heroin Addiction Rehab

Graph 1 reveals the top 30 two and three word combinations related to heroin addiction that were used in search engines over a one-year period. Noticeably, “heroin addiction” is the most common combination, with 74,423 searches. The next four most frequently searched phrases include “addiction treatment”, “heroin addiction treatment”, “addiction and treatment”, and “heroin addiction and treatment” with search ranges between 9,152-6,061 annually. Subsequently, the phrases “addiction rehab” and “heroin addiction rehab” were searched an equal amount of 5,479 times.

This difference in the number of searches for phrases including “treatment” and those including “rehab” would lead one to question how society defines each and if the search terminology is skewed for professional context or colloquial expression.

Heroin Addiction - Prevalent Search Topics - Graph 1

(Continued on Graph 3 at the bottom of this page)

Top 30 two and three word combinations

	estimated searches/year across all search engines
	0		76,000
heroin addiction	74423
addiction treatment	9152
heroin addiction treatment	9042
addiction and treatment	6061
heroin addiction and treatment	6061
heroin addiction rehab	5479
addiction rehab	5479
addiction heroin	1914
treatment for heroin addiction	1847
treatment for heroin	1847
cigarette addiction	1643
cigarette addiction heroin	1643
treatment heroin addiction	1464
addiction to heroin	1307
addiction signs	586
addiction symptoms	560
heroin addiction symptoms	560
drug addiction	518
signs of heroin	403
heroin drug addiction	402
heroin drug	402
causes of heroin addiction	366
addiction signs of heroin	366
alcohol abuse	365
treatment of heroin	294
treatment of heroin addiction	294
heroin addiction and recovery	221
addiction and recovery	221
heroin addiction signs	220
addiction in heroin	220
	0		76,000

Heroin Addiction Treatment

Graph 2 offers a focus on key words from Graph 1 associated with “heroin addiction”. The most commonly used words include “addiction”, found in 97.3% of searches, “treatment”, 23.3%, and “rehab”, 6.7%. These numbers show a dramatic decrease of 67.3% from the use of “addiction” to those terms specifically targeting heroin addiction treatment and rehab.

It's interesting to note, however, that following the three most common terms, the key word “cigarette” was used in 1,643 searches (2.01%) during the span of one year. This may reflect what recent studies suggest of a growing shift from injecting heroin to smoking because of increased purity and the misconception that this form of use will not lead to addiction.

Heroin Addiction - Prevalent Words and Concepts Study - Graph 2

Top 100 words used in heroin addiction searches
(Top 1000 can be found at Top 100 heroin addiction exact phrases and top 1,000 concepts/words - Graph 5)

	estimated searches/year across all search engines
	0		81,000
addiction	78871
treatment	18877
rehab	5482
cigarette	1643
signs	740
symptoms	595
drug	531
abuse	433
methadone	394
alcohol	370
causes	367
as	349
cocaine	309
recovery	293
withdrawal	223
history	221
nh	220
denver	219
rehabilitation	183
how	167
allen	146
poe	146
about	130
fetal	114
rate	112
beat	111
arguments	110
centers	77
edgar	74
social	74
problems	74
edhar	73
pain	73
caused	73
therapy	73
detox	58
brain	57
poetry	55
counseling	55
alchohol	55
neurobiology	52
treat	47
addictions	37
modalities	36
clinics	36
fantastic	36
addictive	35
chasing	30
dragon	30
help	28
what	21
suboxone	19
drugs	19
videos	18
educational	18
cure	18
stories	17
pellet	12
implant	12
used	11
physical	11
nj	10
risk	10
factors	10
clean	10
rates	9
patient	9
book	8
families	8
women	8
new	8
opium	8
becoming	7
info	7
medicine	6
charles	6
treatments	6
academic	6
dual	6
songs	6
statistics	6
from	6
why	6
journals	6
ray	6
vietnam	5
meth	5
scale	5
psychological	5
treated	5
solutions	5
facts	5
indiana	5
fighting	5
cures	4
family	4
europe	4
organizations	4
plymouth	4
books	4
jerry	4
pregnant	4
illinois	4
relapse	4
hypnotist	4
shooting	4
baltimore	4
adolescent	4
affect	4
	0		81,000

Ambitious Addictions Research from a Montreal Drug and Alcohol Rehab Center

An industry leader, USDR, located near Montreal, Quebec, Canada, has pioneered groundbreaking internet addictions research as well as the development of successful addictions treatment and detox programs. The Center's research, through innovative technology, tracks and analyzes statistics and trends that are dominant in queries for heroin and other addiction related topics. Consequently, this information has bolstered Clear Haven to become a principal resource for those individuals affected by addictions that are using the internet to reach out for help and insight.

Heroin Addiction - Prevalent Search Topics, Continued - Graph 3

Top 31 - 100 two and three word combinations
(Top 30 are in Graph 1 above)

	estimated searches/year across all search engines
	0		230
history of heroin	219
addiction treatment denver	219
heroin addiction and withdrawal	219
heroin addiction treatment denver	219
heroin and cocaine	184
addiction rehabilitation	182
heroin addiction rehabilitation	146
about addiction	111
fetal addiction heroin	110
cocaine heroin	110
fetal addiction	110
drug addiction treatment	110
drug addiction treatment cocaine	110
addiction treatment cocaine	110
heroin addiction rate	110
heroin addiction pain therapy	73
addiction treatment centers	73
heroin addiction treatment centers	73
addiction recovery	68
heroin addiction recovery	68
methadone treatment	59
poetry of heroin addiction	55
detox heroin heroin addiction	55
detox heroin	55
heroin heroin	55
neurobiology of addiction	52
heroin and the brain	52
heroin or addiction	36
drug addiction rehabilitation	36
heroin addiction treatment modalities	36
signs of heroin addiction	36
symptoms of heroin	34
symptoms of heroin addiction	31
heroin addictions	26
about heroin	19
educational videos heroin addiction	18
heroin addiction help	17
addiction help	17
stories of heroin addiction	15
cure for heroin addiction	14
cure for heroin	14
heroin addictive	13
heroin cocaine	8
addictions to heroin	7
charles heroin	6
info on heroin addiction	6
info on heroin	6
heroin cocaine dual addiction	6
ray charles heroin	6
heroin abuse	6
what is heroin addiction	6
addictions drug abuse	6
signs heroin addiction	6
songs about heroin addiction	6
book about heroin addiction	6
what is heroin	6
addiction rates	6
ray charles heroin addiction	6
drug abuse	6
songs about heroin	6
academic journals heroin addiction	6
dual addiction	6
physical addiction	5
solutions for heroin addiction	5
psychological addiction to heroin	5
psychological addiction	5
how is heroin	5
addiction scale	5
addiction scale heroin alcohol	5
fighting heroin addiction	5
	0		230