
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
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addiction heroin | ![]() |
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cigarette addiction | ![]() |
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treatment heroin addiction | ![]() |
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addiction to heroin | ![]() |
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addiction signs | ![]() |
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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)
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addiction | ![]() |
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treatment | ![]() |
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rehab | ![]() |
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cigarette | ![]() |
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signs | ![]() |
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symptoms | ![]() |
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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)
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charles heroin | ![]() |
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info on heroin addiction | ![]() |
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academic journals heroin addiction | ![]() |
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physical addiction | ![]() |
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solutions for heroin addiction | ![]() |
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