Social Awareness Essay - Heroin Addiction

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