2. Oxycontin: Purdue Pharma's Painful Medicine
3. Doctor convicted of Murder for overdose deaths
4. Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients?
5. Should we drug test everyone who receives government benefits?
6. Finish Heroin Presentations
HW - Finish Presentations
Assignment #10
Answer the following questions in a paragraph each:
1. For you, what was the most surprising, shocking, saddening, or maddening (or all of the above) about what you saw on The Oxycontin Express? Are you surprised at the extent of prescription pain killer abuse in America?
2. How could state law makers (politicians) in Florida, make changes to Florida's laws to reduce the prescription drug crisis? What could doctors do differently? What could drug companies do differently?
3. Discuss the responsibility of drug companies, state law makers (politicians), and doctors share in this crisis? How much of the blame do you think they share with the user who decides the take the drug?
4. Why do you think that the user is the only one who feels
legal consequences (arrest and imprisonment) for the problem? Why not doctors
or drug companies? Don't they produce, sell and profit from the drug much more
than a street level dealer?
5. Choose three graphs (from slides 1-16) about drug use in the United States from the Drugs in America - Keynote that you find the most interesting and do the following:
- Explain why each of those graphs are interesting to you.
7. Read this article about the debate surrounding drug testing for welfare recipients in Maine: https://bangordailynews.com/2013/02/28/politics/state-house/maine-democrat-submits-bill-to-drug-test-welfare-recipients/
- What is your POV on this issue? Discuss and explain your opinion in a substantial paragraph.
- Be sure to provide specific reasons for your opinions.
- Provide and analyze at least one quote from the article to support your opinion.
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