Safe Havens Keeping McHenry County Trouble Free Families are constantly under pressure to ensure that they are living in a safe neighborhood to raise their children. Most families tend to look at which schools they are going to raise their kids in, whether it’s a safe neighborhood, and other options such as these. Another important aspect that typically crosses people’s minds when choosing where to reside are the drug usages within the area. Unfortunately, no matter where someone would look to live, these problems are always going to be present, just in different forms. Within the McHenry County area, the heroin usage has been increasing yearly, causing people to look for solutions to combat the problem of it being in the hands of high school students and young adults by creating more substance free establishments, affordable places to hang out available to the public, and more resources for recovering addicts. …show more content…
Opioids are highly addictive drugs. These addictions typically start out as a prescription from a doctor for a high amount of pain, typically used after surgery or other highly painful injuries. The people that are given these pills typically form a bodily and mental dependency on the drug. Because of this, they will go out and search for opioids as a street drug in the form of heroin. Some will also use heroin because of peer pressure surrounding the drug or a necessity for a greater high compared to a simpler drug that they were on