To the producers of Newsround‚ I have attached my research essay on the Heroin trail on the page below. As you may or may not be aware 90% of the world’s heroin comes from Afghanistan‚ also one of the worlds most corrupt and less economically developed countries in the world. The heroin trail starts in Afghanistan where a struggling farmer grows his opium poppies on the bit of land he has‚ his country is in turmoil‚ he’s largely disconnected from the rest of the population‚ and he has few options
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Methadone VS Detoxification There are some people who are addicted to heroin that may want to get help. Some tried to stop using to just like that but just within 6 hours‚ they would start get withdrawal symptoms which are very uncomfortable and that lasts for about a week. There are treatments for heroin addiction which includes the methadone and detoxification treatment. “Methadone treatment has been used successfully for more than 45 years. It has helped millions of people regain control of
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strong views.” It is shocking to hear that “giving methadone to heroin addicts has a 97% failure rate.”(1) I was extremely surprised to hear this because I thought and was made to believe that after a few years methadone would completely stop addicts taking heroin. Infact in the same study by Scotland’s leading drug experts it emerged that there was a “29% success rate among addicts who went ‘cold turkey’ in a rehabilitation
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consequences do not. The inability to function normally without the substance in question is not the only “dismaying” consequence. Alcoholics drink themselves into early graves through liver and kidney failure or elevated blood pressure and heart attack. Heroin addicts frequently overdose as they naturally build an immunity to the drug and require more for the same high. Television lacks any of these direct physical detriments that are associated with addictive substances. The only similarity left when taking
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life and most cannot walk away from. Opioids also affect the brain to increase pleasant feelings. Doctors prescribe opioid medication to treat pain‚ and to treat a person addicted to heroin and opiates. There is also growing evidence to suggest a relationship between increased non-medical use of opioid analgesics and heroin abuse in the United States.
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A. Identify a Social Problem The social effects of opiate addiction are felt by those who may have never even seen more than an image of heroin. For example; “In an early study‚ for example‚ Inciardi reported that a cohort of 239 male heroin addicts from Miami committed 80‚644 criminal acts during the 12 months before being interviewed (Inciardi‚ 1979).”. (Strain and Stitzer‚ 2006) In part‚ this is due to the problems associated with the severe withdrawal symptoms that begin about
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by allowing and taxing opium trade? The opium is used to make heroin‚ which is then smuggled into European countries. The heroine epidemic in Europe is a direct repercussion of the US incursion into Afghanistan and corrupt government officials that allow it to happen. Opium production has been a continuous problem in Afghanistan since 1992. In 2000 the Taliban banned opium cultivation and succeeded in causing a sharp decline in heroin exports from Afghanistan. After the 2001 invasion of the US
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In the news there has been more recent talk about the use of heroin. The Drug Free World foundation statistics stats that 9.2 million people in the world are using heroin. There has been an increase in the use of this drug over the past 10 years‚ causing more people to overdose. With such a large increase of heroin users‚ there has been much talk about how to solve this ongoing problem. Countries around the world are now having safe injection houses. These houses are where drug users can receive
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and maintenance anti- addictive and reductive preparation for use by patients with opioid dependence. It was developed in Germany in 1937‚ mainly because Germany required a reliable internal source of opioids‚ it is acyclic analog of morphine and heroin‚ and methadone acts on the same opioid receptors as these drugs‚ and has many of the same effects. Methadone is also used in managing severe chronic pain‚ owing to its long duration of action‚ strong analgesic effect‚ and very low cost. It was introduced
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