Madilyn Weems - Drugs

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/learning/lesson-plans/investigating-the-heroin-and-prescription-opioid-epidemic-a-lesson-plan.html?rref=collection%2Fspotlightcollection%2Flearning-current-events&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection&_r=0

In this article it discusses how much heroin and epidemics have become a major drug issue in the United States of America, that many people have overlooked. A video is included where a survivor tells his story and he explains how it becomes a non stop thinking process. Throughout the day it’s all a person is able to think about and it seems like a mental disorder leading to more usage of the drug. It then goes into ways to break away from the drug by going to facilities and getting a close group to help you through this time. Many need to stop shying away from the problem and need to face it head on. This relates to the 70’s era when many began to learn and take drugs, and it eventually became a major problem socially. Some loved it and others opposed the idea of drugs, just like today.