Heroin Addiction: A Chicago Epidemic
Since 2012, 390 people living in the Chicago collar counties (DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will) have died due to heroin use and one person loses their life every three days to heroin. Heroin is a synthesized opioid drug from morphine and can be injected, inhaled or smoked. When heroin is overdosed, an individual’s breathing is…