Meet Lizzie, read about her life and things that relate to her experiences!!!!

  



  Meet Lizzie, she is a 17 year old girl that lives in a small town in Australia.  This community was made specifically by the government because they wanted their land for themselves.

    In an interview that  I saw on a website called "The block" she spoke about how she feels living in this area and seeing the horrible things going on all around her. She had a very rough childhood and experienced three deaths in her family.  When she spoke about the three tragedies that happened in her family she gets more into detail on her mothers death.  When she was two years old her mother died a couple of months after giving birth to her little sister. She overdosed and died.  She spoke about how the worst experience was seeing  junkies overdose and dying on the street.  In the interview she said" I've learned to block out the voilence." . An article that I think relates to her story is an article that states "These six people died of drug overdoses within a span of 18 months." . This relates to her because it speaks about individuals overdosing on the streets and that is something she believes is just horrible.  One more article that i found and that i believe relates to how she feel on the matter of people over dosing is an article called Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in U.S., data show. Here is a quote from this article "While most major causes of preventable death are declining, drugs are an exception. The death toll has doubled in the last decade, now claiming a life every 14 minutes.". This quote show she really has a good reason to fear people overdosing and how her method of blocking everything out really works.

If you want any further information feel free to visit these two websites. http://www.sbs.com.au/theblock/#   http://graphics.latimes.com/prescription-drugs-part-one/ http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/17/local/la-me-drugs-epidemic-20110918