Backward bifurcation and global stability in a heroin epidemic model

Reza Memarbashi, Somaye Taghavi

Abstract


In this paper, we propose and study a heroin epidemic model considering the effect of incarceration of users due to criminal actions. We prove the occurrence of backward bifurcation and compute the threshold quantity $R_0^c$ by a new method. Furthermore the global stability of the equilibrium points of the model is investigated using Lyapunov functions and geometric stability method.

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Published: 2020-04-16

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Reza Memarbashi, Somaye Taghavi, Backward bifurcation and global stability in a heroin epidemic model, Commun. Math. Biol. Neurosci., 2020 (2020), Article ID 17

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