COMMONLIT: The New Painkiller Epidemic PART A: Which TWO statements best identify the central ideas of the text?
A) Dramatic changes in doctors' approaches to treating chronic pain have led to
an increase in prescription and utilization of dangerous drugs.
B) As OxyContin is only addictive if patients misuse it, it is up to patients to use
prescribed painkillers only as intended by their doctor.
C) OxyContin is an effective means of momentarily treating pain, but eventually
patients are forced to turn to physically addictive drugs to feel the same
effects
D) Prescription companies became aware of the addictive nature of OxyContin
only when it was too late, after they had already been encouraging its
widespread use.
E). The economic decline in the United States encouraged people to seek out
heroin as a form of entertainment and affordable treatment of pain.
F) Chronic pain has worsened over the past few decades, requiring doctors and
patients to seek out more extreme means of pain management.

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Hurry 100 points consider the speakers in "the raven" and the speaker in "the song of wandering aengus."write two paragraphs to compare and contrast the voice in these two poems. how does the poet give the speaker in each poem a distinctive voice? what effect does this voice have in each poem?

Will give if correct read the passage first of all, if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that [it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest, but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norgay gazed down upon the world from its summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.