Heroin consumption in the ACT has slowly and steadily increased while across the rest of Australia, the highly addictive, semi-synthetic opioid has steadily fallen out of favour with drug users.
The latest long-term study - the first issued since wastewater analysis for illicit drug usage began in Australia in 2016 - has revealed how heroin consumption has increased 53.7 per cent over the past seven years in the ACT and yet nationally, demand for the drug known as "horse" is falling away rapidly.
