Reflection on Reading 5.1

The article is about a way to control and help heroin addict is Australia. A medicine called Methadone is created to intensify the effects of heroin. David Marx, a student of Melbourne University began to injecting Methadone to undertake his escalating habit such as committing armed robberies to fund his drug supplies. In Australia, there are 23000 other heroin addicts depend on Methadone to overcome the habit. However, like heroin, when Methadone injected, users may suffer severe withdrawal symptoms like fever, depression, cramps and headache. Overdosing on Methadone can be fatal. Adding to the risks is a dangerous new trend: Methadone injection. This article is written to heroin addicts and methadone prescribers. It is good information to prevent new heroin users from injecting heroin into them continuously which could bring a lot of negative consequences.

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