Heroin

Behavioral treatment is highly encouraged for addicts. After all, users claim addiction is a mental and physical disease. The National Institute claims that cognitive-behavioral therapy and contingency management are effective when it comes to treating heroin addiction. A few institutions have specific programs for substance abusers. For example, the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility, near San Diego. This medium security prison has program called, the Amity Prison Therapeutic Community (TC)…

The Heroin Epidemic The current heroin epidemic is just as bad and just as scary as the cocaine epidemic. The epidemics have their similarities, however, they have many differences as well. The heroin epidemic started in America around 2013. From 2003 to 2013 the amount of heroin-related deaths had already risen an astonishing 286 percent, and those numbers have not slowed down. Heroin is currently the cheapest its been in a long time which means that it is a drug almost anyone has access to.…

the type of addiction, the afflicted individual often finds themselves dealing with an overwhelming list of personal and physical problems. With that said, there is something particularly insidious about heroin and opiate addiction. The Dangers of Heroin Addiction There are two aspects of heroin that make it one of the most addictive and dangerous substances on the planet. First and foremost, it renders the user with a wonderfully euphoric feeling. It's the warm and peaceful sensation created…

has had a growing problem in recent years, the presence of heroin has hit closer to home than most people think. It is very easy and cheap to obtain heroin and it has become a problem here in McHenry County. In 2009 the McHenry County’s sheriff’s office seized sixty-five grams of heroin. (Northwest Herald.) According to a study in the Northwest Herald heroin is most likely found in people driving in the Rockford and Chicago area. Heroin has become a growing problem, not just in McHenry…

How Deadly is Heroin? Heroin is a highly addictive drug and a just as deadly one at that. There is a very high number of deaths everyday all over the world, and the death count is going up. Why you may ask, well that is a very good point. The reason for that is that people are mixing it was a different kind of drug. A drug used only for tranquilizing large animals. This mixture is very dangerous as the tranquilizer is not for human consumption, and there What is heroin? Heroin is a highly…

Research paper In 2013 almost 600,000 deaths were due to the use of on heroin in the United States and statistics like these just keep getting worse. The United States has recently taking steps with call heroin houses or supervised injection facilities. Supervised injection facilities are where illegal drugs can be used under the supervision of trained staff. Heroin houses have been a very controversial topic recently in the United States. The United States compared…

According to the Office for National Statistics, 3,300 people died from drug poisoning in 2014 in England and Wales, the highest figure since modern records began in 1993. Deaths from heroin and/or morphine increased by 579 to 952 between 2012 and 2014. Heroin is an illegal highly addictive recreational drug with extremely painful withdrawal symptoms which was first manufactured around 1848 in Germany as a treatment for tuberculosis but its use consequently grew in the 1850’s in the United…

Usage in the United States is shocking. The article from CBS News, Heroin use in the US reaches “alarming”20 years high. UN office on Drug and Crime Reported its World Drug Report said that heroin usage is harmful globally and also said that the increasing use in U.S. is a serious matter. The report shows that many people used to take heroin a few years ago, but the number rises year by year and death related issues caused by heroin also have gone up five times more compared to decades ago.…

on their lives do have a few options of treatment that can help them rehabilitate themselves back to health and slowly counter some of the negative effects suffered from the drugs prolonged use. Withdraw from heroin abuse is both physical as well as psychological. The physical withdraw symptoms are extensive and generally require medical assistance to help stabilize the users body and readjust to the normal state prior to heroin’s damaging alterations. This period of detox varies depending on…

Heroin Addiction: Is A Reality Over the past two decades, heroin use is increasing at an alarming rate in many parts of the United States (U.S.). As a serious problem, an Ohio mother illustrated this fact on Facebook. On September 14, 2015, Eva Holland posted a stirring photo of herself and her two small children, Lucas and Ava. They were smiling, posing with her deceased 26-year-old husband and the children’s father, Mike. He lays in his open casket because he died of a heroin overdose (…