This article is about a husband and wife injecting their three children with heroin. CPS officials visited the house where the family lived with other adults. When they got there, thy discovered a toxic environment for children with needles, intoxicated adults, and heroin everywhere. When they took the children, they found bruises and cuts on the children that seemed to have been given by a needle or injection. The oldest child, the six year old son, informed authorities that while living there, him and his two younger sisters were injected with "feel good medicine" which he described as white powder combined with water. The children are now getting new, better homes.
This article was written by Max Blau for CNN. Based on the author's attitude towards the parents, he is very against what the parents did to the children. The article was written to inform readers about the horrible things that happened. It is significant because this was written during the heroin epidemic, which is apparently very popular right now. It's also to show people what people on heroin are capable of doing and hopefully preventing it. This can be related to when the settlers were addicted to tobacco but didn't stop so it promoted death throughout the country.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/us/washington-children-injected-heroin/index.html
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