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According to American Addiction Centers an estimated 20.7 million people age 12 and older needed treatment for a substance use disorder in 2017. Only 4 million people received treatment, or about 19% of those who needed it.
This shows that many drug abusers don’t get the treatment they need, and for those who get treatment the statistics also show there is a 40-60% chance of relapse.
In the article ““I Am Going to Die If I Keep Living the Way I Am.” She Was Right” the journalist Beth Macy conveys the story of Tess Henry, a heroin addict who died because of drub abuse, and tells the story of how the system failed the abusers.
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Macy’s article was published in The New York Times in July of 2018 covering the opioid epidemic.
The article is intended to inform about the opioid crisis and to bring light upon what Macy finds to be a flaw in the American system regarding the lack of help to drug addicts.
Macy comes across as someone who is very involved with both the story and the family and she is being portrayed as a caring and credible person “I wrote about Tess in these pages, using the pseudonym Erica to protect her privacy, back when her privacy mattered.”
(p. 1 ll. 5-6) this quote shows that she had a professional approach to the story by keeping Tess’s privacy in order and this gives her credibility and shows that she is a caring person towards drug users and maintained their privacy.
Macy writes how Tess was enrolled in a program called M.A.T medication-assisted treatment where patients are prescribed a “maintenance drug” such as buprenorphine or methadone which is a drug to starve off the painful symptoms of withdrawal, but when the program ended Tess soon fell back into old habits and lost custody of her son.
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