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Your drain on drugs: Amphetamines seep into Baltimore's streams

  • By Jen Christensen
  • May 8, 2017
  • 1 min read

Jen Christensen covered in her article that there are illegal drugs that are being drained into local bodies of water. The specifics were, it were the aquatic life in Baltimore that were exposed to drugs and they are not soft drugs, they are included with methamphetamine and amphetamine. And the drugs are affecting the aquatic life like the moss that grows on the rocks, the bacteria that is living in the water and the bugs that are hatching. The study on this problem was published in the latest edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology. With other previous studies with researchers, it was concluded that to prevent this problem to continue to prevail was to "invest in maintaining and repairing our aging underground water infrastructure and potentially develop new technology," have said Emma Rosi-Marshall an contributing study as a co-author.

To have made the argument clear, Jen Christensen held her strict and formal diction that remain emotionally neutral but all the while it was leaning more towards the conscious side of the logic usage of the argument. Which leads to her constant tone throughout the article. Her tone remained very straightforward and right to the meat of the argument, her tone was factual driven. She held her factual and straight tone by using numbers and stats and the mention of scholar knowledges. With that Christensen were able to make a solid argument with appealing towards mostly ethos over anything else. She went straight to numbers and facts from previous studies from Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and A US Geological Survey study done in 1999 and 2000 and Environmental Protection Agency (PDF).

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/25/health/meth-fish-baltimore/index.html


 
 
 

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