Heroin is the worst drug

There are many different drugs that are used and abused in the United States. Heroin is one of the more common severe drugs a person can become addicted to. But what exactly makes heroin such a bad drug? Heroin changes the make up of your brain. Prolonged use of the drug can cause dramatic personality changes, anti-social behaviors and severe mental and physical sluggishness. Once an addict is hooked on heroin, it becomes their entire life. The lose who they were before the drug, by shutting out all loved ones and obsessing about when they will get their next fix. But the more heroin you use, the more you need to feel the "high" you want. This is how an addict overdoses on heroin.

I have seen first hand what a heroin addiction can do to a person. When I was growing up, I had a cousin, who I idolized and adored. If I wanted to play at a family gathering, he would drop whatever he was doing and do what I wanted to do. Then, he became a father. He absolutely loved being a dad. Then, he became addicted to heroin. As far as my family knows, he struggled with this addiction for at least seven months, but it could have been even longer. He stopped showing up at family gatherings. He started stealing money from family. He could no longer put his attention on his child. And then, his addiction killed him, right after his child's first birthday. If heroin had not gotten a hold on him, he would still be here.

Heroin is a horrible drug. It destroys people and families, but there is a glimmer of hope. I was a child when my cousin died, and in the entire time he fought his addiction, I never once saw him high. He knew I idolized him and he knew what seeing him like that would do to me. There was enough of the person I knew inside of him, that he still put family first. That one little fact shows me that having a heroin addiction does not mean a person has to die. You just have to help them find themselves again.