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RESOLUÇÃO - 1ª AVALIAÇÃO / 2007

LÍNGUA ESTRANGEIRA - INGLÊS
(SOMENTE PARA OS CANDIDATOS OPTANTES PELA LÍNGUA INGLESA)

TV: HBO's Hard Look at Addiction
HBO unveils a massive documentary about drug and alcohol abuse that's almost too much of a good thing. WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Devin Gordon
Newsweek

March 14, 2007 - What happens to drug addicts who don't get the help that they need? Forget for a moment whether you believe the prevailing science that addiction is a disease, or that proper medical care - and not willpower alone - is required to overcome it. Forget your own feelings about the morality of drug use and about who's to blame when use erupts into full-blown abuse. Just for now, forget questions of right versus wrong, and focus on cold, hard reality. What happens to drug addicts who don't recover? Do they vanish, like ghosts? Do they die quietly and harmlessly, without disturbing the rest of us? Of course not. Drug addicts who don't get the help they need get worse, and their addictions grow and grow, until their compulsion has consumed everyone and everything around them. They destroy families.
They turn to crime. They put other people in danger. They make bad decisions, stick around in violent relationships, have children they're in no position to raise. They get sick. They don't work. The ripple effects of their addictions go on and on and on. Eventually, their problems become our problem - big time. This is the inconvenient truth for anyone who chooses to see addiction simply as a failure of personal responsibility.
HBO's massive new documentary series "Addiction," which premieres on Thursday has many astonishing revelations to share about our country's drug and alcohol crisis. But there's one point above all that it desperately wishes to communicate: whether we accept it or not, we're all paying for the scourge of addiction, and the price tag is only going up. To hammer home the gravity of the struggle, HBO's