Critical Literacy - Reading 5.1 - Australia's Methadone Mess

The article is about the usage of heroin that was replaced by methadone. This article focusing on heroin addict in Australia. Firstly methadone using for heroin addicted to prevent their addict but some quite of time their switched to methadone. However methadone has some similarities of effect with the heroin. The Australia government has didn’t expect the methadone has bad effects. The heroin addict found out that the methadone also has the same affect same the heroin but the duration of the effectiveness is shorter. At the first methadone was introduced the government supplied in capsule shape. However the addict finds out that by using capsule the effectiveness is less than liquid, so the addict upgraded to convert the capsule into liquid and do inject themselves thru the nerves. By using this way the drug effect are faster sent to the brain.