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Interesting Article on Opioid Abuse Epidemic - Look At The Map
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 726707" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I think this is scary. Addiction is a disorder, but like so many people who have mental health issues many have the mistaken idea that it is imperative to take medications for blood pressure, epilepsy or diabetes, BUT it is somehow "weak"to take medication for mental health/addiction. I don't get it. I do take an antidepressant and would probably have been a suicide without it. Yet my life is great...</p><p></p><p>Addicts sabatage themselves and others by talking other addicts into trying to kick very addictive drugs without medication. You can't function on opiads. You can function on other medications and not crave the deadly drug. How is this bad?</p><p></p><p>I too am alarmed by the map. At the same time, the cost of the places that use all three medications is prohibative to most people. My family could never beg, borrow or steal $3000 a month and that doesn't include the initial fee. How many people does the cost eliminate????</p><p></p><p>We need to update how we think about addiction and so do those who create these rehabs and the addiction community in general needs to stop preaching that if you quit a serious drug by taking a not serious drug that you are still a user. This includes the 12 Step community. I dated a man years ago who was active in AA and heard that mindset at meetings that I would sit in on. Maybe AA and NA are more flexible today.</p><p></p><p>I am sad for all you with sons and daughters still struggling and have to deal with a solution that is so close but so far away to so many.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 726707, member: 1550"] I think this is scary. Addiction is a disorder, but like so many people who have mental health issues many have the mistaken idea that it is imperative to take medications for blood pressure, epilepsy or diabetes, BUT it is somehow "weak"to take medication for mental health/addiction. I don't get it. I do take an antidepressant and would probably have been a suicide without it. Yet my life is great... Addicts sabatage themselves and others by talking other addicts into trying to kick very addictive drugs without medication. You can't function on opiads. You can function on other medications and not crave the deadly drug. How is this bad? I too am alarmed by the map. At the same time, the cost of the places that use all three medications is prohibative to most people. My family could never beg, borrow or steal $3000 a month and that doesn't include the initial fee. How many people does the cost eliminate???? We need to update how we think about addiction and so do those who create these rehabs and the addiction community in general needs to stop preaching that if you quit a serious drug by taking a not serious drug that you are still a user. This includes the 12 Step community. I dated a man years ago who was active in AA and heard that mindset at meetings that I would sit in on. Maybe AA and NA are more flexible today. I am sad for all you with sons and daughters still struggling and have to deal with a solution that is so close but so far away to so many. [/QUOTE]
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