?Heroin: world’s most indiscriminate, cold-blooded killer. Heroin is a worldwide problem, but there has been an explosion of heroin deaths right in our backyard. From 2008 to 2012, over 160 people died from heroin overdoses in McHenry County alone. Heroin is becoming cheaper, more potent, and far more readily available than it ever has been in recent years. We need to stop this drug and loosen its grip on our citizen’s lives. Heroin is a very widespread issue that needs to be resolved before it takes more of McHenry County’s citizens in cold blood. While heroin has been popular since the days of the Chinese emperors, there was a lull in its popularity due to the AIDS virus. Since heroin is mainly injected intravenously, users quickly became scared that they would catch AIDS from their needles. As a result, cocaine became the drug of choice for many heroin users. But now, new forms of heroin can be smoked and snorted with no fear of catching AIDS or Hepatitis C. Now, heroin is a massively popular and available recreational drug, and a very immense problem for our society. While we can’t necessarily eradicate it from the face of the earth, we can certainly do everything we can to try and get it out of our county, and hopefully even our entire state. Many argue that simply raising awareness of the drug’s widespread path of destruction can be enough to keep it at bay. Other theories state that good samaritan laws that offer immunity to drug related charges could increase the number of life-saving 9-1-1 calls, and others say that simply increasing the police’s efforts in finding it and making the appropriate arrests will do the job. While there is a plethora of possible solutions to this problem, the one immensely effective solution that could possibly eliminate all heroin deaths has one name: Naloxone. Naloxone is a drug that could potentially eliminate 100% of all heroin deaths. Naloxone completely reverses all side effects