The A Team
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I would like to share with you a song that is entitled “The A Team”. It was sung and composed by Ed Sheeran, an English singer, songwriter and producer. This song is about drug addiction, a girl named Angel is an addict homeless teenager chose to sell her body (sleep with random men and paid) to support her addiction, and she’s doing it for years. She hates her life, her job but she has no choice because she’s already addict, she can’t help herself but to sleep with men for her to supply herself with some addictive drugs and then she died at the end. According to Ed Sheeran he wrote this song, it was an experience when they conduct a gig in a homless shelter, he was 18 years old back then. The meaning behind the title of his song is "A drug like crack cocaine is called a 'class A' drug. That's in the same categoryas heroin. Instead of making it clear and just saying what the problem was, I'dsay, 'She's in the 'class A' team.' It was kind of my way of covering up (aperson's addiction), I guess, making it a bit more subtle." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A_Team_(song)). Stated by Ed Sheeran in a video interview with Billboard.
Drug Dependence vs. Drug addiction
This two terms if you would not analyze it well it seems like they are just synonyms, but they are different Drug Dependence is the case wherein a person depends on a certain drugs for him/her to function well, for example if you experience toothache every now and then you take some anti inflammatory drugs for you to ease the pain, you are losing the sense of tolerance, deep inside your mind you think that if you will not take a drugs your pain will not subside. While in Drug Addiction is a compulsive use of drugs or substances regardless if it contains bad or negative effects on your body. Best example of addictive drugs is the cocaine which I’ve stated above.
COCAINE
Also known as Flakes, Snow, Blow or Coke. It is a powerful addictive drug that could make you lose control of your nervous system ,it is a hydrochloride powder which is processed to composed a rock crystal and there it is usually smoked. There are allot of alternative ways on how to use this drugs it could be injected, smoked, and snorted. The effect of this drugs is that it make one person hyper, energetic and feeling euphoric other effects are body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure increases that could lead to heart attack, seizure, respiratory failure, strokes, nausea and abdominal pain, and there are also cases reported death especially in the first time users or overuse/overdose.
