The Problem Of Heroin

The abstract of my essay is just what I feel like I have covered and to give you a brief overview of the topic. Heroin has started to take many lives around New England, every year the number has increasingly risen. The age you would assume these drug users to fall under may startle you. Towns and cities around New Hampshire are starting to see that there is a problem. The drug itself is a cheap alternative to pain medication for most users. People have gone from blaming the pharmacy and doctors for over-prescribing patient’s opiates to the drug itself that is used for detox is difficult to buy due to finances. The elections are near and many different politicians from around the New England area are making their claims on how they will address …show more content…
In 2013 more than 8,200 people have overdosed and died from the drug. This information was not just from New England this was taken from the population of America. The age commonly associated with the drug varies from 18-25 the majority of these people make under $20,000 a year. Recently there has been a change in this range of age, people younger than 18 are doing this drug. Once you are addicted to this drug the chances of you becoming independent without it is very slim. This drug will tear you down and turn you into the person you would never thought you would become. Addicts tend to turn to committing crimes to supply there habits in some cases they are caught and put in jail. In other instances the addict does not get the help they need and unfortunately they end up dying. I titled my paper “The Heroin Epidemic” because the heroin abuse is currently at an epidemical level. The problem is bigger than people see it out to be because America does not the infrastructure or proper treatment to treat this situation. In recent times there has been many overdoses. The overdoses themselves are not from heroin the majority of the time, the death is from another substance added to the heroin. This other substance is called Fentanyl. Fentanyl is a very strong pain killer medication it is up to 50 times as potent as heroin. When the two substances are mixed it can almost guarantee that a user doing the mixture may die. The …show more content…
If someone is not willing to accept help, the help offered to them is useless. If the center is close to home they will most likely not recover and follow their program. This is different for the addicts that are accepting the help and trying to better their lives. These addicts are having problems finding a center in the area because there is not many. If someone is willing to get help but there is no help to be given, they are not likely to succeed in their goal of achieving sobriety. As I go back to reiterate my quote of this all “Once you’re into heroin, it’s either jail or death” this is very much true. On the contrary, yes this may be your results but it should not happen if you are trying to get yourself help. If you are an addict and know you need help with your problem you should be able to find that help before it becomes too late. When I say too late it could very likely mean death or jail, but that is not the only problems addicts run into. Addicts tend to run a very bad path before the end up with either of those two results. They tend to destroy their ties with families and friends. If you are backed behind a positive family they will love you and care for you until the end. Families are breaking down and losing their hope for the addict when the addict is trying to find help and cannot. As a parent how would you feel knowing your kid has a deathly