The Drug Heroin and its Effect on Families
Ramona C. Malone
COM/172-Elements of University Composition and Communication II
University of Phoenix
September 15, 2014

The Drug Heroin and its Effect on Families

As a very common known street drug, heroin has become the drug that destroys many families in the United States. Due to the fact that Heroin has become the more accessible drug, it is causing more and more people addicted? Heroin addiction has become extremely dangerous in today’s society to both young and old. Americans need to get a handle on this and develop sometime of intervention to help family members who have become addicted to Heroin. Without help to become free of Heroin the outcome could be a very sad on for all involved.

Heroin and its impact has affected all parts of the United States and not just selecting today’s wealthy Society, but as well as so many of our urban areas (National Institute on Drug
Abuse, 2012). Heroin has been identified as one of the most used and sought after drug by any addict of recent years (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2012). Heroin is one of the fastest acting drugs which will give its users an immediate rush, making the body relaxed and with the sense of less pain. Whether it be emotional or physical pain a user is trying to decrease, they enjoy the fast acting rush. (Christensen, CNN, 2014). Once a person is starting to obtain the help to no longer take Heroin they can and will experience some pretty intense withdraws for a period of time. The majority of people withdrawing from a use of heroin experience a stronger want for the drug. He or she could experience more cravings than expected just even after one dose.
(Christensen, CNN, 2014). Some of the withdraw symptoms can be drastic mood changes, such as depressed, edgy, anxiety attacks. Any of these