according to the articles Veterans Face “Greater Risks Amid Opioid Crisis”(2016) and “A Growing Number Of Veterans Struggles To Quit Powerful Painkillers”(2014)  it is argued that there is an opioid epidemic and a lot of the victims are veterans. These articles are saying that veterans have a high chance for addiction to opioids because they are more vulnerable to pain and injury and they usually have to be treat fast so they can get back to the fight. I believe this to be true specially during times of war, doctors want their soldier to quickly go back to the fight and they don’t have time to give full treatments that takes a long time to heal or fix the problem so they instead just give a painkiller and back to the field the soldier go.

The number of veterans that have opioid addiction keep to grow over the years as the war  continued. In the articles by Quil Lawrence(2014) points out “During wartime, doctors and medics need to trear troops for pain, and often use prescription opiates to solve that problem.”

Ps: I put that quote but I haven’t really worked around it.

The drug epidemic is a serious problem happening across the U.S and it has killed more than thirty thousand people. This health issues are tackle in “Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid” and in “On the campaign trail in NH, heartbreak over heroin addiction”.  As one of the articles states “Public health officials have called the current opioid epidemic the worst drug crisis in American history.”

According to the Editorial board, 2017, “Public health officials have called the current opioid epidemic the worst drug crisis in American history.” (Para 2)

Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari argues that addiction is not only due to chemicals. Johann tells about an experiment done by professor Bruce. Bruce’s lab rats experiments tells us that rats with good social and fun lives would never choose to take heroin and the rats that had bad lives would always take the drug. But not only that once the rats with bad lives were changed to a better environment where their lives were good they immediately stopped taking the drug. Johann tells us about bruce’s finding because it explains that that addiction is not only based on chemicals but also a major part in the environment that the person is in. This is not the only observations that points this to be true.

Another observation made by Bruce that argues addiction is not the only reason for addiction but environment is a major reason. Bruce tells us of what happened during and after the Vietnam war. During the war an extremely large amount of U.S soldiers were using heroin to cope with their horrible lives they had during the war. After the war something happened that a lot of people did not see it coming, 95% of soldiers that were using heroin simply stopped because their lives were now good and calm compared to when they were in war. Bruce informed us of this event because it was basically his rat experiment but in human scale and the results found in this event goes hand to hand with the findings of bruce’s rat experiment.

P.S: I didn’t notice that my Post didn’t wasn’t publish on the due date and I had not notice until I notice today in class when I went to the site. Hopefully you still give me some credit

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21633819-old-sickness-has-returned-haunt-new-generation-great-american-relapse

The above will link you to The Economist article “The great American relapse”. This is a article written by an anonymous author. The main idea of this article is that there is an uprising of the use of heroin. The Economist is known to be a reliable source and this forum post give a perspective on how credible they are

https://www.quora.com/Is-The-Economist-a-biased-news-source