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Heroin overdose deaths on the rise
Heroin deaths
2012: 205
2011: 145
Prescription opioid deaths
2012: 177
2011: 208
Source: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
*Figures are for the first seven months of each year
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We must begin to value any positive change instead of condemning people to death if they choose to use! A dead addict never recovers...
Addiction is a chronic, progressive brain disease. It's treatable. Perhaps not as successfully as one might like, but on a par with other chronic diseases that require substantial behavioral change, like diabetes and hypertension.
Unfortunately, many people still don't believe addiction is a disease. That's why science-based education is so important.
For a not-for-profit website that discusses the science of substance use and abuse in accessible English (how alcohol and drugs work in the brain; how addiction develops; why addiction is a chronic, progressive brain disease; what parts of the brain malfunction as a result of substance abuse; how that malfunction skews decision-making and motivation, resulting in addict behaviors; why some get addicted while others don't; how treatment works; how well treatment works; why relapse is common; what family and friends can do; etc.) please click on www.AddictScience.com.
what people dont understand is the doctors put you on these pills for pain and these pills change the nuerons in your brain so when you stop even when you want to it takes a really long time just to feel normal! Most people build up such a tolerance that you would never know they were even taking anything! These kids are not trying to get high they are just trying to feel normal!
