Trashed Tuesday Blog

 The article Trashed is about a young teenage boy who is found dead in an alley. A man found him there so he called the police, the man that found him said that the police took a long time to look over the scene. They finally announced that the young boys name was Michael York, he was 17 years old. The authorities said that he had died from a heroin overdose. Michael did not die though in the alley where he was found, he was dropped off there by his three friends. Michael was at a party where he was using the drug. St. Charles East where Michael was from, that school had mostly just marijuana and alcohol but no heroin. More and more kids from the school were becoming addicted to the drug. It was a norm for teenagers to use heroin. The school was known to be a good school that was safe. The community was known to be popular with tourist, so it was odd that one drug could be tearing the community apart. Drugs are something that needs to be taken more seriously it causes many deaths. Just like the many cases in the article Trashed, there was more than just Michael. Another thing is people stereotype people by using drugs, and most don’t think they are white, but the community that the article is talking about is a white community. People should not stereotype by just the color of their skin  because there are a lot of whites that use drugs.