Drugs in

America
Ending the addiction at
the source.
Whats the Issue?
Quick fixes
It doesnt take much to get drugs any more.
One could walk into a doctors office and get
whatever drugs they want with just a flash of
their ID.
Not a lot of reliable prescriptions.
Doctors & Pharmaceutical companies
Money
What are opioids?
Made of juice from the opium poppy that has
been dried

The morphine in a seed pod

First use
Why are opioids a problem?
Order of Events

1. Prescribed safe drugs like oxycontin

2. Addicted to the opium
3. Continue to go back for more
4. When denied the body goes through withdraw
5. Look to the streets for help
6. Heroin is the quick fix for lack of opium
7. Addiction
Eviden
ce
US consumption of opioids

Past 5 years heroin has doubled in the US

4 out of 5 US citizens go from prescription drugs to heroin

Death in America:

2006-2016 125,000 have died overdosing to prescriptions

17,000 die on average every year

Eviden
ce
Interview

What started it: Quotes:

Started buying prescription drugs at Heroin is so much cheaper and

13 from friends easier to get your hands on that
pills; unless you selfharm to get
Started snorting opioids then them.
injecting and now heroin
I am 37 years old and Ive been
Warm feeling throughout whole using for more than half my life.
body Even when I was locked up.

You forget everything.

Before After
The drug distribution is on
the rise nowadays. There There is Still
seems to be no way to fix
the people bypassing the Hope
system, but
 What Needs to be Done
Increase consequences

Get bad doctors out of practice

Get addicts into MANDATORY

rehabilitation
Crackdown on street drugs

Increase police effort

Thats really all we can do

within the Constitution
 Who Supports Us
John Adams: Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our
wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot
alter the state of facts and evidence.

Benjamin Franklin: A Spoonful of Honey will catch more Flies than a

Gallon of Vinegar

"May the foundation of our new constitution, be justice, Truth and

Righteousness. Like the wise Mans house may it be founded upon
those Rocks and then neither storms or tempests will overthrow it."
Abigail Adams
How The Future Could Look
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