Goals to Solve “Drug Addiction”?

Question by Taylor Daniel: Goals to solve “Drug addiction”?
Do you guys have an idea to solve drug addiction?
Any way to solve this ???

Best answer:

Answer by Mike Hunt
Education, education, education and people have to learn that prohibited drug use does not equal drug addiction.

The most widely used and abused drug is the legal addictive hard drug alcohol.

Vt. spends millions on addiction-fighting drug that is diverted for street sale
The very drug that is supposed to be part of the solution is increasingly becoming a problem as some addicts sell their medication on the street to buy cheaper drugs, such as heroin. You can buy buprenorphine outside Rite Aid on Cherry Street in …
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'Alarming' rise seen in drugaddicted infants
As prescription drug and heroin abuse rises in New Hampshire, doctors are facing a side effect of this trend: babies born addicted to opioids – drugs used to control pain, a condition known as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). The state's reported …
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What Is Addiction?
As the death of the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and the rise of overdoses in New England indicate, heroin continues to be a plague of both desperate poverty and tortured privilege. The abuse of prescription drugs is an even more widespread problem.
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September 26, 2013, Drug Abuse and Addiction – Richard P. Holm, MD visits about Drug Abuse and Addiction with Matthew Stanley, DO with Avera Medical Group University Psychiatry Associates and David Ermer,…


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