Heroin Addiction Research Paper

Heroin was once found in poor neighborhoods in big cities, now has spread into wealthy suburbs outside of cities, and even into small towns. “Issue Overview: Heroin Addiction by: Lauren Etter and “Drug overdose deaths cause U.S. life expectancy to drop for 2nd year,” by Associated Press talks about the effects that Heroin has on society and how it started as something small and has been becoming into something that is in the News every night due to the many overdoses that have happened around the world. Heroin is very strong and made from a poppy plant. It is classified as an opioid which means that it is very addictive. Many years heroin was seen as a breach and one could get extremely in trouble for it, and now it is seen as a disease. …show more content…
In the article from Newsela “Issue Overview: Heroin Addiction, By; Lauren Etter states “On the other hand, there is growing evidence that painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin are leading to new heroin use. Even though these painkillers are opioids, like heroin, doctors can legally give them to patients.” The data that is provided is saying that many doctors have legally given patients to many pills and that they may not have been noticing that they are misusing them. The reason for the mis-using drugs is because they are painkillers so they take the pain away from people, and before they know it they are hooked on the drugs. Many people say that they don’t mean to get hooked but they do it so that they can escape from whatever one is dealing with. Since so many people are using Heroin, it is easy to have an overdose and possibly be …show more content…
“ An addict will suffer painful withdrawals if they go without the drug for too long. Addicts can also become violently ill or even accidentally kill themselves if they take too large of a dose.” This describes an overdose. They can cause people to become very ill which like it says causes them to possibly kill themselves. Associated Press states in the article “Government figures released in late December put the number of people who died from drug-related issues at 63,600.” Not only does this statement include Heroin but it includes all the other drugs that people have taken. But, the factor is that Heroin mainly makes up this number of overdoses. Some people think that they can try a drug one time and not get addicted but some were wrong. Others can control themselves but some can get so addicted that they can not stop. Now people are starting to talk about opening places in cities where people can use the drug. (Mainly