Author: Karen Palencia

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Childress and Lawrence believe that poorly managed opiate usage contributes to the thousands of veterans battling addiction today. This in fact is true because many troops are prescribed medication to manage pain while serving and after serving a war but are never fully evaluated. The need to have veterans in the best shape during their deployments and allow a sufficient recovery after experiencing injuries, encourages the availability of many drugs. As stated by McDougal “He missed some training, but his company needed his expertise with satellites and radios, so they made sure he was classified as “fit to deploy” (as cited in Lawrence, 2014, para.6). ”Bryan McDonel got through his second Iraq deployment popping six Vicodin, the powerful opiate painkiller, per day, as his doctor had prescribed. When he got home, his doctor kept him on opiates, which is not uncommon. The lack of empathetic doctors who do not carefully monitor their patients or evaluate their physical or mental stability after serving in the military are a reason why so many veterans are addicts.

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Jamila Scott : Tri-lingial

In Jamila Scott’s 3 Ways to Speak English, Scott argues that the English Language “is a multi faced orientation subject to indefinite transformation”. Scotts talks about the ways she communicates with others in the English language. At school, at home, and with friends Scott speaks in different “tongues”. Being able to speak in these tongues make Scott articulate because she is able to apply the rule of English depending on her setting. “So when my professor asks a question and my answer is tainted with a connotation of urbanized suggestion…” In this sentence Scott gives and example of how at school she speaks proper English as most would call it, but because she also speaks in her urban language she may confuse the two as well as as her “broken English”, the form of English she speaks at home with her parents. Scott’s poem is stating that there are many forms of the English not just one, and as a “professional”, she is no different from others who may speak one form of English but she is articulate because she can differentiate her English based on the environmental setting.

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Chasing The Scream

In Chasing the Scream, the author argues that drug addiction is not caused by the chemicals in drugs but by an addict’s environment. The author uses the example of Bruce Alexander, who was a professor who realized that an experiment conducted by psychologists proving that drug withdrawals kills its users was incorrect. A group of scientists ran a study on rats that showed that rats in a confined environment exposed to drugs would continue using these drugs, which was so. But the scientists did not consider, that there was nothing for these rats but being confined in a cage alone with just drug infested water. Bruce remade the previous experiment using a second environment as well as the original environment, the second setting was a rat paradise which also including the drug morphine and added the same drug addicted rats to the rat paradise known as “rat park”. To their amazement, the drug addicted rats broke their drug habit and showed symptoms of withdrawal but never went back to consuming the drugs in the environment. This proved the theory, that drug addicts are not addicted to drugs because of their chemicals but because of their environment and the habits. The was also the example of the Vietnam War, a study showed that 20 percent of U.S Soldiers had become addicted to heroine, but once back in the United States, 95 percent of the soldiers did not continue the use of drugs. The five percent who did not kick their bad habits were already addicts before deploying or had bad childhoods. In conclusion, the author learned that there is a difference between physical dependence and addiction. Physical dependence has to do with chemicals, and addiction is a psychological feeling for a need for the sensation of being calm or whatever sense of feeling it actually gives off.

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Credible Article: Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A look at America’s Opioid Crisis, New York Times Article

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/opioid-crisis-epidemic.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FPrescription%20Drug%20Abuse&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection&_r=0

 

The link above will link you to a The New York Times Article on The drug Epidemic of Opiod Crisis in America. This article has been composed by a team of several New York Times Reporters who examined the Opiod epidemic of seven states of the United States. These investigations found that many communities are searching for ways to battle these current drug addictions and shared the stories of several citizens battling their addiction in these various states.

The current article has been published by The New York Times New Paper which is a credible news paper.  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company.