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AP Lang period 6 | she/her

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@RiyaR2320 This is unacceptable. Especially as a professor, I would expect better. I wonder how her students that are people of color reacted to this. #mchslang23

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to, as a safety measure, or would it encourage teens to be less careful because they know there is something they could take if they do overdose? #mchslang23

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Teen drug use is actually getting slightly less common than it used to be, but it is getting far more dangerous. This is because a lot of pills are laced with fentanyl, so it is a lot easier to overdose. This article discusses several possible ways https://t.co/DDdC8CH7U9

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to address this. One thing is more drug education for teens. Another is making sure they know how to use Narcan, an overdose reversal drug. Some parents are not big fans of this. But isn’t it better than the alternative? Would it be an important resource for teens to have access

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gotten the assistance they need. For example, a year after Harvey there were twice as many black people who reported still needing aid, compared to this number for white people. This is unacceptable. #mchslang23

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This talks about the discrepancies between white and black homeowners’ access to emergency disaster relief (like FEMA). There are many black homeowners who are still dealing with the damage from Hurricane Harvey (2017). A large amount of people have not https://t.co/dga3bVgOL4

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be canceled. Would it be right to decrease the intensity of the inspection process, or would that then be a security threat? #mchslang23

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Truckers want less inspections when traveling across the border between the US and Mexico. They say that the security protocol and all the checkpoints for inspection are unnecessary delays that actually cause things like food to spoil or for deliveries to https://t.co/ndYYISaZkS

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@palakn8 This just is not an acceptable comparison to make.

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@palakn8 It’s scary that anyone would actually say this. You’d think that because Hitler was so terrible a person, everyone would agree about that, but unfortunately there are people who think differently. It’s especially terrible that this was an elected official. #mchslang23

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adults to know where those pills came from or that the pills are exactly what they think they are. #mchslang23

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In the past few years, fentanyl overdoses have increased, particularly in teens. This is because people will take pills that they think are some other “safe” drug, but many pills often contain varying amounts of fentanyl. When someone doesn’t know with https://t.co/Z73tFPCKZv

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100% certainty where the drugs that they are taking came from/exactly what they are, they are at risk of a fentanyl overdose, because it is not uncommon for drugs to contain fentanyl. This is especially an issue for teenagers who use drugs, because they are less likely than

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@CarmenJ2339 striving towards change/progress. #mchslang23

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@CarmenJ2339 I agree. We need to acknowledge the positive things too, because for those who do care about/acknowledge climate change, it easy to just jump to the catastrophic state of our planet and feel like it will never get better. Hope is a key role in motivating people to continue

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abuse in their youth are just as at risk for substance abuse issues throughout their lives. Even if they are able to stop for some period of time, they are at high risk for relapse later on. #mchslang23

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Many teens who use drugs have the mindset that this is just fun and games, they’re teenagers, it’s not a big deal and they’ll stop when they’re an adult, they’ll take it seriously later because it doesn’t really matter now, etc. But that’s not how it https://t.co/ZZvFHMoYyD

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works. It’s not like you hit a certain age and can just like that, just decide to not use drugs. The “decision” to stop is not like a simple decision when you choose what shirt you are going to wear or what restaurant you want to go to for dinner. People who deal with substance

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to magically be qualified for a job just because the times are dire. The things that are required in that job will be the same. Is there a way to address this problem without compromising the quality and even safety of work? #mchslang23

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This seems like a desperate solution to the problem. Will this cause the quality of various things/work/services to go down? The fact that the economy is in need of more people to fill jobs doesn’t change what these jobs entail. That worker is not going https://t.co/Gecvb2bW9a