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The Social Effects of Heroin Addiction

Heroin use has become rampant in the country. In a 1996 study, around 2.4 million people reported using heroin at some time in their lives, with 216,000 of them reporting that the used it within the month preceding the study. Not only has its use grown in all age groups, but it has also spanned racial and gender lines, and has become the primary abuse drug (seen in drug treatment centers) in places like Newark, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The Canyon is a rehab center that focuses on addiction treatment, such as heroin addiction. If you or someone you know is suffering from the effects of heroin addiction, The Canyon can help. Their highly trained and certified staff helps clients break free from the cycle of addiction and get back to normal, healthy lives.

Social Effects of Heroin Addiction Historically

Heroin is extremely popular in today's society, but it didn't just appear from nowhere. The roots of heroin in America stretches back to the 1800's, when opium dens stretched across the west. Opium (from which heroin is derived) was extremely popular with cowhands, and at times rivaled alcoholism for the number of people addicted physically and mentally to a substance. Over the turn of the century and into the early 1900s, drug companies began to package vials of heroin and morphine and sell them with hypodermic needles, selling them to customers who would use them to treat a variety of ailments. In that day and age, heroin was as popular as drugs like aspirin is today. Heroin and related drugs were sold legally in American until 1920, when new drug laws were passed. Over the rest of the century, more laws were created that made it harder and harder for people to obtain heroin. Thus, an illegal market was created, and people started trading in heroin on a "black market" of sorts. This illegal buying and selling of heroin has continued up and through today.

Heroin Addiction and Crime

Heroin is associated with crime for the simple reason that its manufacturing, use and distribution is illegal. Additionally, many people turn to a life of crime in order to help fuel their addiction for the illegal opiate. From around 1980 through 1990, arrests for heroin related crimes were steady, and then (as the drug's popularity rose) they began to rise. Everyone from petty street dealers to the mafia have been involved with heroin distribution, due to its lucrative nature. Imports from other countries helped fuel the flow of drugs into the country, and the government's response has been to tighten laws and step up enforcement of manufacturers, distributors and users of the drug.

Heroin Addiction Rehab at The Canyon

At The Canyon, our Healing Life Program will help you develop a positive relationship with yourself. By using a variety of traditional and non-traditional techniques and therapies, you will be given the chance to reclaim your personal goals and dreams, and to reawaken an authentic relationship with your life. Therapists work with each individual client to help select a treatment program that is specially tailored for them, with the goal of complete freedom from drug addiction. With the help of The Canyon, you can break the cycle of addiction and go on to lead a healthy life of abstinence.