Analysis Of Drug Abuse In Ed Sheeran's Song, The A Team

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Did you know that drug-related overdoses have risen fifty six percent in the past ten years in America? Also, drug addiction has reached epidemic levels across the world with 230 million drug abusers (Sederer). Most people don’t realize how big drug addiction really is, it ruins families, relationships, and most importantly it destroys your body. The song, The A Team, written and performed by Ed Sheeran addresses the issue of drug abuse when analyzed using cultural criticism.
Drug addiction is a big problem in the world today with 230 million drug users world wide. In America it doesn’t get any better with 19.9 million people using illicit drugs in 2010 (Sederer). Drug laws are in every state and prohibit the manufacture, possession, and sale of certain type of drugs
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Also, The A Team relates to cultural criticism because he wrote a true story about a woman lost in drug addiction who is also homeless in the streets of London. This proves that drug addiction is not just a problem in certain places but it is a problem in multiple places with different groups and cultures of people all around the world. Feminist criticism would not be a good choice because drug addiction is not just a particular group of people or genders. It is different societies or cliques of people from all over the world who get addicted to drugs.
Given these points the song The A Team supports the issue of drug abuse. We as a society need to do something about the drug problem we have today instead of ignoring it. Take a stand and stand up for the people who have those serious health addictions, recommend rehabilitation, attend gatherings to support those in need. Most importantly do not judge someone who is addicted to drugs, be there for them, and help them fight this addiction because it is nearly impossible to do it

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