The Substance Abuse Of Heroin By Scott Calvert

My informative essay will discuss the unfortunate and accidental path of becoming a heroin addict. Heroin is an opiate that contains the same components as narcotic pain medications. There are people in this world that become dependent on opiates and strongly feel they can’t live without them. Pain medications are the number one source that links them to heroin use.

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star is a book co-written by Nikki Sixx, co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter of the band Mötley Crüe. The Heroin Diaries is a 413-page collection of diary entries written between Christmas of 1986 and Christmas of 1987. A large portion of the book is dedicated to the recording of Mötley Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls album and the subsequent Girls Girls Girls tour.

The ancient practice of yoga is called meditation in motion ( ). It is a technique that uses physical postures and controlled breathing to lengthen and strengthen the spine and increase flexibility. It also builds strength, calms the mind, improves concentration, promotes patience, and relieves stress. Yoga can also contribute to a greater sense of control in more acute states when experiencing drug cravings, insomnia, and agitation ( ). Many addicts in recovery find that the serenity they learned in yoga acts as a natural tranquilizer that allows them to step back and evaluate their thoughts with greater clarity. A person who experiences a craving, for example, may apply the practice of mindfulness to that craving and acknowledges it without emotion. One can recognize it as an object of active addiction and let it go without using the drug. Regular yoga practice is needed to fully experience these kind of benefits. Overall, the huge addiction problem is complex, requiring multiple methods of intervention and

Though some members of the public health system may have experienced addiction, it is highly unlikely that they have dealt with extreme heroin dependency as those in the community has. The attitude toward heroin addicts truly transforms when their personal accounts are stated rather than having a comprehensive trend or poster-child type figure represent the community. Though one can assume the withdrawal symptoms are difficult, Carter and Frank’s description surely brings into perspective how excruciating withdrawal from such an addictive substance such as heroin is. The withdrawal is as much emotional as it is physical, with the physical consequences “You [are] throwing up and fartin’ and shittin’ at the same time. It’s like you don’t have no control over your ol’ muscles in your rectum whatsoever” (81). However, the emotional consequences are much more intense and inescapable as “the worst part is the heebie-jeebies…the anxiety part just make [you] wanna scream…[it’s like] a million ants crawling through your skin and you just want to peel it off. And there ain’t no sense in bein’” (81). Heroin is one of the most addictive substances in the world to the point where when Hogan was hospitalized for 6 weeks and nearly lost his arm, he wept and stated, “‘I’m scared, Jeff. I’m through with dope,’” only to appear a week later back in Edgewater injecting heroin as he said “‘What else can I do?’” (106). It is near impossible to sincerely understand the toil that such an established dependency can cause when trying to go

Addiction therapy is an extremely tough and painful process to overcome for an addict, especially when it comes to heroin addiction. Presently, heroin is one of the most devastating and destructive illegal drugs in the nation, in terms of the effect it ensues on the person using, their life and social surrounding. Due to the chemically addictive nature of the drug, it makes treating heroin addiction a gruesome process. Not only does heroin affects the individual physically, but it also affect them emotionally and mentally. Many people all over the world are addicted to heroin without ever seeing the hope of recovering, which leaves many to question the effectiveness of treatment therapy as a mean to achieve abstinence.

For a person who is abusing heroin, two obstacles must be overcome for treatment to be a success. The short term effects of heroin treatment involve withdrawing from the drug. Because heroin creates such a strong physical dependence, an addict will often continue taking the drug in order to ward off the physical pain of withdrawal symptoms. The second obstruction is the ability to stay off the drug. “After detoxification, the long-term problem of drug dependence remains. The craving for heroin persists and the abuser most often has little choice but to return to a drug-orientated

Heroin is a drug that has taken over the western world in recent years. Considered to be one of the most dangerous drugs, heroin has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. A highly addictive drug, heroin has swept the nation and has achieved epidemic status. An opiate, heroin is used as a painkiller and is known for its euphoric effects. There are many dangers that come with the abuse of heroin such as death but there are even more serious issues that can arise from the drug.

In 2016, about 948,000 people used the dangerous drug heroin. There are several types of heroin and ways to ingest it, and it’s being abused daily. If help isn’t seeked, the abuser may die. Heroin is one of the worlds most dangerous opioids and is a major problem in the United States.

On November 5, 2015 Edinboro University hosted an event in the student center. It was a two hour seminar on heroin use. There were speakers on how heroin have been around the Erie community for years. People who have used heroin in the past talked about how it have affected their lives. This seminar and the speakers used this event to respond what has happened in their community. While the program was going on I learned some facts on actually what heroin can do to someone when continually using.

Heroin use has reached epidemic levels In the U.S. The overdose deaths have nearly quadrupled and has increased 63% within 11Years (CDC). Tom Friden, director of the CDC thinks that the addiction to prescription painkiller may be contributing to the rise of heroin use. According to the CDC, “most heroin users have a history of non-medical use of prescription opioid pain relievers...” (ReadWorks). The government needs to become more active in regulations relating to prescription drugs. The people using need help both in treatment and realization of what damage people are doing to their body buy using heroin. For the sake of others the continuation of this epidemic needs to be shut down and put on high priority. Heroin use has reached an unhealthy,

People who used heroin often did so in dark alleys in shady parts of town but that has changed over the past decade. “In the past decade, the “heroin addict look”-blank expression, waxy complexion, dark circles under the eyes, sunken cheeks, excessive thinness, greasy hair-was promoted in popular magazines and fashion circles as “chic” (Foundation for a Drug-Free World, 2006-2016). Heroin use has spread into the suburbs and rich neighborhoods and the addicts are getting younger and younger each day. Heroin addicts often lie to their family and friends to get money to pay for their habits. They turn tricks and steal to get the money to support their habit. Heroin can cause lung damage, heart damage, kidney failure, and difficulty with your mind and ability to think. Some symptoms that a heroin addict may experience are dry mouth and flush skin. Their pupils may be constricted and they may experience itching, nausea, and vomiting. Heroin users may nod off suddenly and their breathing will be slowed. The addict is often unware of the damage being done to their body and life. They begin to neglect their needs and may not eat properly or take care of

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Client reported using heroin everyday within the last month. Client reported spending $10 a day and using clean needles to “shoot up”. The client reported using meth only when it’s offered to him.

Heroin one of the most highly addictive drugs in America is back and booming “over 9.2 million people abuse this drug”.( What Makes Heroin So Addictive). It comes from the opium poppy seed originating in Southwest Asia, and founded by Charles Wright. Wright discovered the drug in hopes to create a pain reliever to help everyone. The issue came when the molecular makeup of the drug immediately began to inhibit brain production. Heroin is made up of C21H23NO5 which is carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen it derives from morphine and is a highly addictive analgesic drug and is used as a narcotic producing euphoria.

Heroin comes to us from Germany where it was developed by a man named C. R. Alder Wright in 1874 by adding two acetyl groups to the molecule morphine, a natural product of the opium poppy. Originally Heroin had been seen as a remedy for treatment of coughs, chest pains, and the discomfort of tuberculosis, also acted as a remedy for morphine addiction and as contradicting as it sounds the name itself means “hero”. Generally, we have had usage of opiates during wars but everything can be abused and it didn’t take long before it came known the addiction mainly soldiers developed from the drugs. Heroin not only became a highly addictive drug, but also became the pinpoint of many family problems and bad law encounters but what is so intriguing about white or brownish powder or as the black sticky substance known on the streets, black tar?