Primary Artifact 1- News Report

I chose to do some digging on the internet to find out more about the heroin problem that has aroused in the Cincinnati area over the last couple of years. I came across a Fox19 news report from 2012 that I felt would be very persuasive if incorporated into my final project. The news report was about how a woman named Michelle Conda, a professional pianist who taught at the University of Cincinnati, was driving home on a scooter and got hit by a car because the driver had fallen asleep due to a heroin overdose. It discussed how heroin is a big problem because the prescription drugs are becoming harder to access and they are more expensive. Since heroin gives you the same high as the abused prescription drugs (oxycodone, etc.), it is becoming the new drug of choice. Then after doing further research and finding more recent data, I discovered that on July 3^rd, 2013 the Hamilton Fire Department responded to 18 drug overdose calls and five heroin overdoses in the course of two weeks. I will use these statistics in my project to strengthen my argument because I am hoping that this data surprises the average reader and then I can use that to build my case as to why there must be more actions taken to prevent heroin from spreading to more people. I need to keep searching for even more information as to where the heroin trend started and I need to begin setting up interviews to get expert information to solidify my case.


http://www.fox19.com/story/18894860/heroin-becomes-big-problem-in-cincinnati-northen-ky
http://www.fox19.com/story/22749186/18-heroin-overdoses-reported-over-last-2-weeks-in-hamilton-ohio