Indledning
Drugs are deadly. Everybody knows. Most people have that compulsory talk with their parents when they reach their teenage years. The talk can be summarized up with: don ́t do drugs, drugs are addictive, drugs are deadly. It can be interpreted as superficial and trivial but it is definitely necessary.
Because people do drugs. A lot of people do drugs. The number of opioid addicts has increased in America. The opioid epidemic has been declared as a public human emergency by Donald Trump in 2017 .
But why do people take drugs when the majority of the drug addicts are aware of the consequences?
And what does the American healthcare system do to prevent and avoid drug addicts and deaths? The theme is illuminated by Beth Macy in her article: “‘‘I Am Going to Die if I Keep Living the Way I Am.’’ She Was Right.” Published on the website of The New York Times on July 20, 2018.
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Uddrag
Macy is a journalist and author based in the United States. Macy covers the opioid epidemic. In this case Macy followed a young woman called Tess in a period of over two years.
Tess was addicted to heroin. The fact that Macy followed Tess for such a long time makes it possible for Macy to give a thorough and sincere picture of Tess, her family and her situation: “I kept in touch as she lost custody of her son and couch-surfed through slumlord apartments.” (L 11 - 12).
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