Drugs Affecting Society

This piece is about Drugs and how some drugs don't only affect people in a bad ways.

By John S. from NY-Hudson Valley Writing Project in New York

So I made this poster in attempt to show how people who used drugs did not end up in a good place. So people should stop the addiction before it takes a serious toll in their lives. For example, in this article the author Buddy T. has been through alot in life and he has personally be addicted to drugs and it hasn’t affected his life in a good way. So he has experience and he knows how it could affect others in a bad way so in this article he explains the effects of drugs that he used and the sides effects the drugs gave him.

So basically this poster is an information giving people good advice and showing how drugs won’t put you in a good place in life.

Work Cited Page: https://www.verywellmind.com/the-health-effects-of-commonly-used-drugs-67906

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