Analysis of a diffusive heroin epidemic model in a heterogeneous environment (Q2187069)

This paper deals with a reaction-diffusion heroin epidemic model in a bounded domain. The authors provide an explicit formula for the basic reproduction number \(\mathfrak{R}_0\), and they prove that if \( \mathfrak{R}_0 < 1\), heroin spread will extinct, while if \(\mathfrak{R}_0 >1\), heroin spread is uniformly persistent and there exists a positive heroin-spread steady state. The global attractiveness of the constant positive steady state when all parameters are positive constants is also established by the authors. Some simulation results reveal that compared to the homogeneous setting, the spatial heterogeneity has essential impacts on increasing the risk of heroin spread.