Dead student's family funds study of heroin addiction among youth

The callers - all current or recovering heroin users - are encouraged to tell the stories of their addiction.

And in recent weeks, a small group of young men and women has done just that, trying to help researchers answer a vexing question: Can you stop heroin addiction before it starts?

The research is part of an ongoing project that seeks to reach the new face of heroin addiction - young white suburban adults - before they become addicted. It's a group increasingly vulnerable to the allure of the drug yet never fully explored by previous studies, researchers say.

"No one has attempted to understand what motivates a kid to use heroin and how to intervene and prevent that from happening," said Kathleen Burke, executive director of the Robert Crown Center, which runs the program.

The research is being funded by Roger and Nadeane Hruby of Burr Ridge, Ill., who lost their grandson, Reed, 24, to a heroin overdose in 2008. The couple has donated $340,000 to start an intervention program that officials say is the first of its kind - focusing solely on preventing heroin addiction.

More than 50 people, ranging from 18 to 29 years old, have offered to participate since research began in late April. It will continue through the summer. Participants receive a stipend for interviews that can last more than three hours and include screenings for mental health conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder, said Kathie Kane-Willis, director of the Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy and lead researcher.

Already the interviews have yielded surprising responses, researchers say. Some addicts are also successful athletes. Others have skipped straight to heroin, bypassing the traditional progression from alcohol and cigarettes as they use increasingly dangerous drugs.

Still others are addicted not just to the drug, but to the thrill of buying heroin off the streets, driving from the suburbs to Chicago's West Side, where it is cheaper to go directly to the dealers.

"They have never seen an inner-city area or an open-air drug market," Kane-Willis said. "That became part of the thrill - not just using the drugs but going and getting away with it."

The research, which also focuses on the addicts' relationships with parents and friends, is expected to be completed by this summer. It will be used to create parental and youth education programs and various methods of intervention, Burke said.

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