Alix Burns: How Heroin is scarring the next generation

  This article gives out many stories and cases on heroin experiences in America. One of the many stories that had an effect on me was in Huntington, West Virginia, in nurse Murray's perspective. Murray works in the neonatal therapeutic unit at Cabell Huntington Hospital, where one in ten babies that are born there suffer withdrawal from drugs, such as cocaine, opiates alcohol, and heroin. The town of Huntington holds a great amount of victims from this epidemic. This includes teens that hide their addictions from their parents and the impact passed to young children. Kids who are effected by this toxicity are either witnesses of their parents addictions, abandoned, or born with the addiction.

   I think that this article provides the truly devastating impacts of heroin and how not only how you could be effected, but how young children are influenced as well.  It is sickening to know that a child could potentially be drawn to addiction by the actions of their parents. I did however like that this article provided multiple stories with different perspectives to demonstrate the many ways that heroin is destructive.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/health/huntington-heroin/index.html