Informative Speech Outline On Heroin - 928 Words

Kiah Bucher Comm 100.03 Mr. McGrath Persuasive Speech Outline Topic: Heroin Addiction Treatment General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To gain passive agreement that all drug recovery center should make available the option of medication assisted treatment drugs in, and after, their recovery programs for heroin addicts. Introduction Attention getter: 41 people die everyday in America due to heroin overdose. According to the national institute on drug abuse heroin usage have risen from 2002 to 2016 from around 404k users to 948k users. The overdoses have blow up from two thousand deaths in 2002 to 15 thousand deaths in 2016. That means about 1.6% of heroin users die to overdoses a year. Tie to audience: If anyone you know†¦show more content†¦Relapse after completing a program is especially dangerous because the addicts low tolerance may cause them to overdose. Kentucky facilities report up to 75% dropout rate of the 12 step program. At the most successful facility with a 40% dropout rate, they reported half of those who completed it relapsed within the year. To paraphrase Dr. A. Thomas McLellan when the 12 step program was widely picked up no one understood the science of addiction, â€Å"We started off with the wrong model.† There is a sense of self accomplishment and strength from within that inspired this program into existence. Professionals have known the system has been broke for awhile, so it was alarming that 90% of drug recovery centers where abstinence was the only solution. Whether this practice came from alcohol treatment, or if the return opioid patients was noted and exploited, I do not know. The financial incentive to tell people the ir treatment is working on others exists. As residential stay can cost around $31K. [Transition: But something in this system to change, so let’s talk about the other 10% of facilities.] Solution l: Other drug treatment facilities use partial opioid agonists like methadone and suboxone. Suboxone is a combination of two drugs that reward a user for correct usage, block the effects of other opioids, and if misused gives a nasty hangover. The drug gives the user similar