Abstract
Among the various causes of heroin addiction, the use of prescription opioids is one of the main reasons. In this article, we introduce and analyze a two strain epidemic model with super infection for modeling the effect of prescribed opioids abuse on heroin addiction. Our model contains the effect of relapse of individuals under treatment/rehabilitation to drug abuse in each strain. We extract the basic reproductive ratio, the invasion numbers, and study the occurrence of backward bifurcation in strain dominance equilibria, i.e., boundary equilibria. Also, we study both local and global stability of DFE and boundary equilibria under suitable conditions. Furthermore, we study the existence of the coexistence equilibrium point. We prove that when $R_0<1$, the coexistence equilibrium point can exist, i.e., backward bifurcation occurs in coexistence equilibria. Finally, we use numerical simulation to describe the obtained analytical results.
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