Let's move onto our second story now which concerns drugs. You know about drugs and the numerous PSA's that encompass them about the dangers around them. But I don't want to talk about the type of drugs that are illegal like cannabis. Instead, I'm going to talk about legal drugs: opioids. Roughly 10 million people get addicted each year to prescription painkillers, drugs like Percocet, Vicodin, and Kadian. More than 760,000 people have died from opioid overdoses since 2000 and the number keeps climbing, which leads one to wonder how on earth this started and has gotten out of hand so horrifically. Well, the answer it turns out can be traced back to 1996 to a Connecticut-based company, a company that is so infamous and hated that the family behind it was, and still is, one of the richest families in America. This company is Purdue Pharma L.P. They are owned by the Sackler family. The Sacklers have over decades evaded public scrutiny over their alleged rollout of their company's blockbuster painkiller: OxyContin. But that is all is in the midst of change. So, with thousands dying every week from opioids and ongoing lawsuits against the Sacklers and an ongoing bankruptcy plan that will relinquish Sackler ownership, I thought it was important to answer 3 major questions: who are the Sacklers, what exactly they are guilty of, and what happens next.
I actually have two stories for today and for my first piece, I want to talk about cell phones, the big ugly file cabinet that we decorate with a 'case' like it's some type of baby who might fall off a cliff if we step on a pebble. Mobile phones are everywhere and nearly everyone has one. They are essential to everyday life and according to Statista, 46% of people who own a smartphone are on it for nearly 6 hours a day, every day. That is a near objectively absurd amount to be on a phone. Plus, with hacking becoming more and more common, along with social media dumpster fires blazing into a near monopolistic hold on people and the posts that influence millions every second and more and more deaths due to texting and driving, I thought it would be good to answer a few questions: why we depend on phones for everything, how tech companies are capitalizing on our addiction, how people are responding, and what we can do with this issue going forward. 
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As we all know it is December, which means CHRISTMAS! One question I want you to think about is... What is Christmas to you? For me, Christmas is the day we celebrate when Jesus was born. I don't think of it as getting presents, or eating many cookies and having hot chocolate. Even though that sounds nice right now. Now, of days many people are forgetting about Jesus and taking him out of the equation and just thinking Christmas is for presents and spending time with the family. We need to make room for Jesus again I mean in Christmas the word Christ is in there anyways, enough lecture from me now lol.
I hope everyone has a good Christmas break. May you have a good time celebrating. Have a holly, jolly Christmas
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Since the beginning of time, impossible beauty standards have been written in stone like staying young and lighting the insecurity of aging. Young is beautiful, young is handsome, young will fit me in with society. It’s always been about the craving to look young and acceptable. The cure for aging has always been on the hunt. Humans rely on things like anti-aging creams, pills, botox, diets, makeup, and lasering. Although recently researchers have found the secrets to what could lead to a cure for aging. This has even started the extreme claim that the first person to live up to 1,000 years old is among us, how could this be true?