A lot of drug abuse treatment centers and health care providers have implemented special
education programs for individuals who take drugs. The purpose of this article is to provide a
brief outline on the assessment of Heroin use and abuse. This paper revealed the National-level
drug prevalence studies which indicate the rate of Heroin use/abuse in the past years in different
age groups among less than high school, high school, some college graduate students, young
adults and other grades. The paper further focuses on percentage of heroin use/abuse in
different age groups and various demographic characteristics which includes the comparison of
gender, race/ethnicity and population density.