They Makin’ a Killin’

Lyrics by Macklemore Put Pressure on Pharmaceutical Companies to Change

Edgar Alvarez, Staff Writer

“The International Overdose Association says that about 28,000 people have died since 1999-2014 due to prescription drugs and so people lose family members, friends, neighbors” and many times famous people have gotten addicted to drugs. Many artists have overdose. Also many artists promoted drugs but many tell what drugs really do like Macklemore who wrote a song called Drug Dealer and this song he tries to explain how big pharmacy are one of the biggest drug dealers. In one verse he says many famous people that have overdose “That’s Prince, Michael, Whitney, that’s Amy, Leader and Pimp C That’s Yams that’s DJ A.M wow they’re making a killing. In other verse he says “Now it’s getting attention cause Sara, Katy and Billy are on it” which means people that are in the American upper-middle class. The media seems to focus the most on celebrities who overdose or get addicted to prescription drugs, but what people don’t know is that addiction and overdoses can happen to anyone. And that’s a sad truth and reality that we face every single day.

Many people have different opinions about pharmacy a lot of people think that pharmacy are a good thing they help people that are sick, injured, or depressed and many other things and pharmacy really do will help people.

But many people think that pharmacy are a bad and why they think that is because many people get addicted to the drug they get prescription to and it first it’s starts with people getting sick or injured and the pharmacy gives them prescription drugs and they run out of drugs some will forget about but some get addicted to it so they try to get some more and when the pharmacy rejects them they will do anything to get drugs to make them feel better and once they find some they can’t take control of themselves which could lead to people overdosing.