Secondary Source #2

Bull, Melissa. Governing the Heroin Trade from Treaties to Treatment. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008. Print.

Strang, J., and T. Groshkova. "Heroin on Trial: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials of Diamorphine-prescribing as Treatment for Refractory Heroin Addiction." Br J Psychiatry (2015): 5-14. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.

            While I was searching for my first secondary source on the WorldCat database, I stumbled across another text that provided a lot of useful information about the heroin problem. The book called, “Governing the heroin trade from treaties to treatment,” was published in 2008 by an author named Melissa Bull. Throughout the book, the author identified a few major drugs including, heroin and opium to discuss the circumstances that led to the prohibition of these certain drugs in the United States. Melissa Bull used historical, economical, and political context to identify why it is so difficult to control the trade of drugs. She not only identified the problem to the audience, but then proposed programs that can help the current situation. Her objective was to share her knowledge on how we should handle the problem, but she also subtly warned the audience of the negative effects this problem could have on the community. I think this will be an important piece to include in my project because I can gain another perspective about how the drug problem should be handled from someone knowledgeable in the subject. There is also a lot of factual information presented in the book that will be incorporated into my documentary to establish my ethos as an author on the subject. I was also asked to find a peer-reviewed journal. Due to the fact that there were a low number of results when I tried to search for relevant peer-reviewed journals, I ended up finding a peer-reviewed journal off of the PubMed database. This journal talked in great detail about a new intensive injectable heroin treatment that is being designed to help drug addicts who are unable to recover using the traditional drug treatments. It has proven to be more effective in reducing heroin dependence. I decided to mention this article because it was what led me to doing research behind the different methods used to treat a heroin addiction. This topic is quite important because there must be new programs established to treat a heroin addiction to help the citizens already addicted to fully stop the spread of this drug. The new discovery reasons me to believe that there are many ways a problem can be handled, so we must look through all the options to find the best approach.