Heroin Addiction Research Paper

The heroin has reached our communities, and it brings with it heaps of unfamiliar problems that we as a community have never faced before. While meth and opiate pain killers have already plagued our society, heroin is much worse and brings with it more problems. With the prices of opiates have sky rocketed, the price of heroin low and the effects more profound, many of the drug users are at risk for addiction. The price of heroin is low, but the price that it has on the community and addicts it much higher. But how can this effect everyone in the community? Once someone has started the drug, they must feed their addiction. While the street value of heroin is only around fifteen dollars for a day’s uses, most victims of this drug have no job. This forces them to do whatever they must to get their drug. Most turn towards larceny. The number of thefts in drug troubled areas has went up twenty percent over the last six months according to Franklin County 911 emergency center. The thefts are initiating many problems for …show more content…
With almost 200 inmates in the correctional facility in the community, 165 inmates are reported to have one of the three diseases. While in custody, the sheriff’s office and ultimately the tax payers are paying for the cost of medical treatment and medications to help these diseases. While out of a correctional facility in the community, a majority of all users do not have health insurance. With Hepatis C being the most common, it puts us in an ethical dilemma. A new drug has been made, called Harvoni, which is $94,500 for a twelve-week cycle, that can cure Hepatis C. The new drug is breaking the TennCare, while pulling the drug can save millions yearly, what about the effects it has on the victims of it has on the victims. Is cutting this funding worth it? What other ethical dilemma, that could save possibly even more