Adolescents are prostituting, dying of aids and living in the streets. However, they continue to use the drugs that are causing their plight. With the advent of managed care, treatment facilities offer Band-Aid solutions to chronic and severe problems. The families and friends of heroin and opiate addicts become filled with hate, depression, panic, confusion, and despair. However, they soon find the effects of heroin abuse resurfacing in their own families, friends, neighborhoods, and schools.
Education Learn about the history of opiates and heroin.
Understand current trends among adolescents who become addicted to heroin. Learn about people who become addicted to prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Lorcet. Explore the physiological and pharmacological properties involved in detoxification and withdrawal. Explore the addicted brain. Learn how relapse occurs to Pavlovian Classically Conditioned external and internal drug cues.