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“We don’t know who will become addicted,” says Dr. Clayton Chau, a substance abuse expert at Providence St. Joseph Health’s Institute for Mental Health and Wellness in California. For this very reason, opioid addiction remains rampant and dangerously hard to pin down. An estimated 1 million people in the United States have died between 1995 and 2015 due to drugs, alcohol or suicide, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and since then the numbers have continued to rise. According to Chau, this is partly because physicians are so focused on treating pain effectively and patients wanting a quick fix, in combination with cheap and highly addictive opioid painkillers. “We as a nation have not done a good job managing pain,” adds Dr. Benjamin Miller, chief policy officer at Well Being Trust. “In many cases, as seen with opioids, we have added a problem on top of a problem without really giving the person the help they need.” To read the full story follow the link
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