Indledning
According to American Addiction Centers, an estimated 20.7 million people aged 12 and older needed treatment for substance abuse in 2017.
Only four million people received the needed treatment. Consequently, over 16 million people go untreated, and even though you get treated there's no guarantee that it will help.
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Uddrag
Macy's article was published in The New York Times in July of 2018, where she covered the opioid epidemic.
The purpose of the article was to inform about said opioid crisis and to bring light upon what Macy finds flawed in the American health care system regarding drug addicts.
The first-hand impression of Macy is that she is very involved with both the story and the family of whom she's writing about.
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