Frontline- Chasing Heroin (Links to an external site.)
Wall Street Journal- American Epidemic (Links to an external site.)
(Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Fault Lines- Opioid Wars (Links to an external site.)
FADED: Fentanyl’s Impact (Links to an external site.)
CBC/Radio Canada: OxyContin, the Time Bomb (Links to an external site.)
After selecting and watching the video, answer the following questions and submit them for online activity #1.
- What fact or bit of information did you find the most interesting or informative?
- What fact or bit of information did you find the most startling or hard to comprehend?
- How is the current “war on oxycontin/heroin” SIMILAR TO and DIFFERENT FROM a previous war on drugs? You can select your comparison, as there have been many “wars” on a wide variety of drugs such as marijuana, opium, heroin in the 1970s and 80s, crack cocaine, etc.
