Heroin

Heroin is one of the most deadly drugs out in the streets today. Maybe people use heroin once a day, or whenever they have enough money. Heroin wasn't meant to bring harm to anyone, it was just a medicine for patients in a hospital. Then the drug got to popular and made it out into the streets where many people abuse it. (Woods, 42) In the year 1898, a scientist working at a German drug company called …showed first 75 words of 892 total…

…showed last 75 words of 892 total…Cognitive behavioral interventions are made to help change the patients thinking, behavior, and to increase their skills in working with different stresses. The State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Profile conducted a survey about drugs. Heroin abuse was the second largest number of cases in all the drug treatment admissions. In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and Washington, heroin was the biggest drug of abuse reported in drug treatment admissions. (NIDA)