Drug Addiction: Lower, Middle and Upper class (Ages 18-23) Harrison McDonald Purchase College, NY Capstone 10/14/18

Abstract

Abstract The research project was designed to investigate the socioeconomic back rounds of people suffering from drug addiction and if their economic class, whether is be, lower, middle or upper class, played any roll in said class's development of the drug addiction. The way in which I conducted my research and organized this study was originally to find records and documentation of addicts receiving treatment/overdose victims and which economic back-round the originated from. I was soon welcomed by doctor patient confidentiality and found this research quite limiting. I then focused on the politics behind our nation and others in how they are handling the spike in drug related deaths. This lead me to researching rehabilitation centers and what they are doing to help the climbing statistics or what they could do differently. I soon questioned the effectiveness of our justice system and how prison/jail has/could potentially help to clean an addict of their addiction after incarceration. After doing extensive research I discovered that the economic class provoking the initial drug addiction was not so much an answerable question nor the problem, but instead found that insurance coverage of rehabilitation centers is the biggest obstacle for addicts to receive treatment, thus reducing the spike in statistics and epidemic of drug overdose deaths the nation is currently facing.