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

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