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.

http://search.proquest.com/docview/1696909997/3A9CEEE08ECB413BPQ/1?accountid=27880

The link above directs to the article Addressing opioid drug misuse in America by a medical journal The Lancet. The article focused on the significant increase of drug abuse rate in america. The medical journal focused on recommending to take actions to decrease the drug abuse that has been increasing between the year 2002 to 2011.  The article is written by an independent general medical journal the covers all aspects of human health internationally. The medical journal is not funded by a specific group. therefore, The lancet provides accurate non-bias studies and statistics due its dependency. More information about the medical journal The lancet can be found in the link http://www.thelancet.com/about-us .

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=7&sid=c1e4eca1-947a-4d14-9f2a-3fc6e2c3d149%40sessionmgr4009&hid=4106&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=116969074&db=a9h

The link above is to an article analyzing the relationship between adolescents who use drugs, aggressive behavior, and societies influences. The purpose of the paper was to address whether social support influences decision making on drug use and the behavior of adolescents.  This article is credible because it has a collection of six authors who hold the experience and the education that supports their work.

I believe the main author is Jesus Gazquez, Jose is a full professor in the department of psychology at the University of Almeria and the director of the department of psychology and education. He has done many other works in the field of psychology that holds up, which makes him credible.

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

http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2017/02/fda-drug-trials-snapshots-and-diversity-when-testing-new-drugs/

John Whyte, M.D., of the article listed above, talks about how drugs can affect men, women, and people of difference ethnicity differently. He also gives different examples and statistics to back up this main idea. This source is credible because it is coming straight from a government website, which is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. John Whyte, M.D. is also a former Chief Medical Expert, and Vice President of Health and Medical Education at Discovery Channel. A brief description of Dr. Whyte can be found here :  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/john-whyte-md-mph.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/policy-dose/articles/2017-02-14/the-opioid-epidemic-could-worsen-under-donald-trump

This above link is an article written by Llyod Sereder. The main idea of this article is the impact that Donald Trump’s health policies will have on individuals and communities that are affected by the use and abuse of drugs, especially opioids. The author states how he goes against “Trumpcare” due to the suffering that people will go through because he isn’t supporting the health system the way that he should and is destroying Obamacare.

Llyod Sereder is a chief medical officer of the NYS Office of Mental Health, professor at Columbia University School of Public Health, and he is a medical editor for mental health for the Huffington Post. He has written three books that are published and he has his own website.

This is a credible source because it comes from U.S. News A World Report. The author has his contact information and is well known. This is also a credible source because it gives us the date that it was published and the website is always being updated with current events.

The following links lead you to the article called Injecting Drugs, Under a Watchful Eye. In this article published by Tina Rosenberg on The New York Times, she’s giving her opinion based on research and studies. Tina Rosenberg is an former editorial writer for The New York Times. She’s also a book writer and journalist. You can find information about her here:https://www.macfound.org/fellows/311/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/injecting-drugs-under-a-watchful-eye.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/05/business/what-s-new-prescription-drugs-doctors-profit-medicines-yet-beat-retailers-prices.html

The above link is written by an writer called Echo Montgomery Garrett. She is a well accomplished author who has writing several pieces for the New York times, women magazines and business magazine. She also spent 30 plus years in journalism.

In this article Echo Montgomery Garret highlights the benefits that doctors have on dispensing drugs to their patients. The profits way more from dispensing drugs to their patient due to contract with the drug company. Although in many cases doctors are not authorize to dispense drugs directly they’ve managed to find a loop hole were they can dispense the drug for only 72 hours and benefit way more than the pharmacists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/a-drug-to-cure-fear.html?_r=0

The link above is going to take you to an article which will probably change your perceptive on drugs. In this article he addresses the posibility that the drug propranolol can decrease the fear a person may have and studies he has done prove his theory right. The author Richard A. Friedman  is a professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. He has done intense research on depression and treatments of mood. You can find out more info about him  https://www.nytimes.com/column/richard-a-friedman . He published this article through the New York Times which is a well known newspaper known for being credible.

http://www.usnews.com/news/health-care-news/articles/2017-01-03/as-the-opioid-epidemic-evolves-impacts-bleed-into-cocaine-overdose

In the link provided above, the article “What’s Behind the Rise in Cocaine-Linked Deaths?” talks about the rise in Opioid epidemic and its link to the amount of deaths caused each year. Kimberly Leonard, the author, is a health reporter with the Center of Public Integrity, an Association of Health Care Journalist, and a reporter for the U.S. News & World Report. The link below gives detailed information about Leonard’s professional career: https://muckrack.com/leonardkl

Her articles are deemed plausible because they are proofread by the company before publishing any articles. Also, she has not written solely by the U.S. News & World Report, but with several different, well-known, newspapers. She is a Senior healthcare Writer, which emphasizes the amount of knowledge and understanding it takes to be published by several of these news papers.