As They Say, Drugs Kill

They Say, Drugs Kill

            In this article, “As They Say, Drugs Kill” the author describes her personal experience of seeing how drugs at a party can kill someone. Throughout this article the author uses great emotional dialect to draw the audience in to the story. By using certain emotions the author was able to describe to the reader everything that was going through her head while her friend was lying on the kitchen floor dying from drugs. As well as using her emotion to try and persuade the reader not to use drugs so they do not end up like her friend dead, lifeless, and on the floor.

            However, the author does lack a lot of facts and statistics on mushrooms as a drug and how dangerous they are for the individuals who uses them. Yes, I do know that drugs can be very dangerous and have the ability to kill you with one use. I also know that this experience could actually happen in real life with another hard core drug. Since the author does not use any statistics or facts showing that mushrooms can have the same affect as heroin, cocaine, or ecstasy. I also would have thought of this incident as a “freak accident.”

            I believe from personal experience of knowing individuals who have used mushrooms that there is more to this story than what meets the eye. This incident could not have happened unless there was another drug involved that the author did not know about. Or her deceased friend had a chemical imbalance in his body that reacted to the drugs that caused cardiac arrest. However, I do agree with the author when she says,” if this death does not make people change, that will be an even bigger tragedy. “Life is too short and you never know when a night of fun with friends can quickly turn into a night of disaster that will change your life forever!