Go Ask Alice blog #3

http://www.countthecosts.org/sites/default/files/Stigma-briefing.pdf

For my third blog I decided to do something different which is a PDF file. I really liked this link that I posted above because it shows the "war on drugs" that is taking place now that coincides with my social issue. In "Go Ask Alice" the protagonist faces trauma (death of grandparents) and isolation which results her to then choose the path of drugs to get away from all the negativity in her life. As the protagonist develops her characteristics through the events in the novel and tells the reasoning on why she has done this and how she feels from it. This all connects back to the PDF file linked above called, "Connect the Costs". In this link it talks about war on drugs which basically means the prevention of the spreading the use drugs and how it is important as it will make the drug users incapable of getting any more. This relates to my social issue because everyone in the novel besides the protagonist and the other drug users are like what the PDF file is telling and that is also how their views and opinions are based on. No one really helps the drugs users in the community besides immediate family members who eventually loose hope and leave them to fight for themselves. In conclusion, this link that I chose coincides with the vast population who discriminates the drug users and shows why this majority does what they do to solve the problem of drugs, for the users benefit, but the users don't think that way as most are addicted to their substances.