Minnesota Heroin Alternative Help

If you think you are addicted to heroin, call Saint Jude's right now, we can help you.

Have you tried drug rehab for your heroin abuse? Are you struggling with no results and a lingering problem? If so, decide once and for all to get clean--and stay clean. The Saint Jude Program can help you overcome a drug problem through our 6, 8, and 10 week programs that will give you the strength to stay sober. Our courses will educate you about self-empowerment and our instructors will outline a course that fits your lifestyle. Don't struggle anymore, call us.

According to studies completed by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), 1,426 or 3.1% of Minnesota's 45,334 state residents who admitted themselves into treatment for heroin. Not including the 10,950 state residents who admitted themselves into treatment for either opiates or more than one drug. Studies also show that 109,000 or 2.59% of Minnesota's citizens reported needing but not receiving treatment fort illicit drug and alcohol use in the past year. Surveys indicate that 3.5% of high school seniors polled had tried heroin at least one time in their lives. Heroin distribution and use have not been significant problems in Minnesota, but recent reports indicate there has been an increase in heroin use, especially in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. At the wholesale level, sources of supply include Nigerian/West African traffickers operating from Chicago and New York, African American street gangs with ties to Chicago, and Mexican traffickers operating from the southwest border and from Chicago. At the retail level, heroin is distributed primarily by Hispanic and African American street gangs.

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