Reading Log 6

Title: When Your Life Becomes Reality TV
Author: drugabuse.com
Text Type: Article
Date Finished: 31/8/17

Summary
This article is about a man from Philadelphia overdosing on a packed bus before being administered Narcan while being streamed live.

Personal Response
This article shows that drugs can affect you at anytime in any place. It says " a young man in Philadelphia is videotaped shooting up and falling off his seat on a overcrowded bus", Then the video cuts to a police officer administrating him Narcan which is an antidote.We that this is a terrible problem soon made worse because the video quickly went viral after the Police tweeted the video. This links to people in New Zealand who don't care if they do drugs in public because this has been seen with those people at a park in the North Island who have passed out due to a drug and one person is laying on the ground with foam coming from his mouth.

This article also shows us that the media does not care about embarrassing people by posting these videos and pictures of drug use on the news and photos in the paper. For example "I get treated like a second class citizen", says one person because of a long-held stereotype that portrays chemical dependency as a moral failing. We see this because only a few months ago on News hub they showed a video of two guys who had passed out on a bench with a bong in one guys hand and a packet of drugs on the bench. This a very disturbing video to post on the news which some kids watch, it is showing them terrible images of what affects drugs can have on a person and in some cases children witness the effects of drugs and alcohol on a daily basis. This links to the New Zealand Media because they have done the exact same thing as the Police in America posting a video of a person using drugs and reacting just like in the last 6 months the New Zealand media have posted to explicit videos of drug use their was they one about the guys at a playground and their was also a video uploaded about a young mother  who is high on the new zombie drug and we were clearly shown that their are baby toys and equipment surrounding her and I wouldn't be surprised if she has used these drugs or been on them in the presence of her child/children. This is exposing her kid to self inflicted drug harm and this could lead to abuse to the child and could lead to physical and mental scars or it could impact the child's future because the child could be addicted to drugs or could be to scared to interact with people which would be hard for the child to get a job especially if it involves social skills.