Lauren Etter's Heroin Addiction

Heroin has become a major issue in ones life and can cause tragic events.
The following information is found in these articles: “Safe heroin injection sites get OK from King County health board” by David Gutman, “Surge in U.S. drug overdose deaths a factor in shortened life expectancy” by Associated Press, and “Issue Overview: Heroin Addiction” by Lauren Etter.
The three articles do not portray the heroin issue in the same perspective.
In the articles above, there are numerous ways in which they relate to each other's perspective.
The perspectives in these pieces of writings are alike in a variety of ways. “Nearly 500,000 Americans are now using heroin, up from 161,000 in 2007. Deaths caused by heroin overdoses more than tripled in four

years. Deaths from all opioids are now approaching the number of deaths from car crashes.” (Lauren Etter, paragraph five) In the information stated above it tells one that the use of heroin is getting out of control. There has been many deaths in the world caused by heroin overdoses.“Heroin overdoses killed 132 people in King County in 2015. The death toll rises to 209 when overdoses from prescription opioids — which are, molecularly, virtually identical to heroin — are included.”(David Gutman, paragraph 20)As stated above, it tells one that heroin overdoses kill more and more people as time changes. Throughout the world many people have overdosed and died.“Overall, there were more than 2.7 million U.S. deaths in 2016. That's about 32,000 more than the previous year. It was the most deaths in a single year In the information above it tells one that the deaths being caused by heroin has gone up every year. Heroin has caused deaths because people are getting overdosed and dying.In conclusion the three articles above talk about the deaths, and the heroin overdoses that are causing deaths. All though there are multiple ways the articles are the same, but there are a variety of ways that they differentiate.
Topic sentence- In the three articles talked about above the perspectives diferentiate in a few ways.“Although no such sites exist in the United States, Vancouver, B.C., has had one since 2003.

Drug users come to get clean needles and inject in a safe, supervised environment. The sites have naloxone — a drug that reverses the deadly effects of opioid overdoses — on hand. It is used multiple times a day and is credited with preventing nearly 5,000 overdoses at the site in Vancouver.” (David Gutman, paragraph 18) In the information above it tells one that people are making sites where people can go and get heroin injected into them. Some may think that getting heroin injected into one is much better than actually doing heroin but it is not.“In 2016, 63,600 Americans died from drug-related causes. That was up from about 52,000 in 2015. For the first time, the powerful painkiller fentanyl caused more deaths than any other legal or illegal drug. Painkillers are prescribed by doctors to help people with pain.” (Associated Press, paragraph 2) As stated in the information above, it tells one that heroin has been a main affct in all the deaths in the world. Heroin has changed a lot of peoples life throught the world. “In 2015, nearly every state introduced new laws related to opioid abuse. They include measures targeting doctors who give out too many of the pills. Many states are also promising not to arrest heroin users who seek treatment.”This information tells one that people have

found a lot more heroin users in the world then they have ever found. The number of heroin users are going up every second of the day.
The three articles talked about above do not. The number of herion users has gone up and so has the deaths the the heroin is causing. Some people may think getting heroin injected into one is better, but it really is not.
There are many deaths in the world due to heroin, would one like themself or there kids to take in heroin and die from it.