Social Awareness Essay - Heroin Addiction
by Joshua Radford
1. Potential Causes
2. Potential Effects
3. Failed Solutions
4. - Making drugs illegal; people will still buy them
5. Getting everyone treatment/ rehabilitation
6. - Prescription drugs being overused or abused
7. - High levels of stress lead to unhealthy coping mechanisms (Psychological dependancy)
8. - Many addicts have a parent with a history of addiction
9. - Homelessness
10. - Can eventually become impossible to stop
11. - Will eventually kill people through overdoses
12. Potential Solutions
13. - Provide heroin addicts with a softer drug to switch over to
14. - Rehabilitation services