Millennium drug tests show heroin up, fentanyl down.

At Millennium Health, drug tests have shown that fentanyl is going down, and heroin is going up. Also as is known, polysubstance abuse involving fentanyl and stimulants is growing. The rate of fentanyl overdose deaths is going down. But the combination of fentanyl and stimulants has grown in every area of the country, Millennium found, in a report released last week. The company also found an increase in the use of heroin in polysubstance use. Millennium analyzed more than 1.4 million fentanyl‐positive urine drug test results from patients across the U.S. with a substance use disorder diagnosis. The main stimulants found were cocaine and methamphetamine, detected more often in fentanyl users that heroin and prescription opioids in 2024. "It is essential that clinicians, public health officials, and policymakers maintain awareness of current drug use trends to ensure that they are prepared to strategically and meaningfully respond to the next evolutionary stage of the drug use and overdose epidemic," Millennium concluded. For the report, go to https://resource.millenniumhealth.com/signalsreportvol7 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]