In James Baldwin's short story, "Sonny's Blues," the narrator's brother, Sonny, has a heroin addiction and gets arrested for using and selling drugs. The narrator feels he needs to take care of and save his brother simply because he is family. Even though these two brothers clearly love each other, ...

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The newest available treatment is based on the use of narcotic antagonists such as naloxone, cyclazocine, and naltrexone (Woods, 2014).These drugs do not have an aversive effect but deprive the heroin addict of the euphoria high usually produced by opiates. ...

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