Wednesday, February 5, 2020

No way out

About 17,000 people in the U.S. died by murder in 2017. A big number, until compared to the number of deaths in the U.S. by overdose: in 2017 over 70,000 people died of a drug overdose, and most of those involved prescription or illicit drugs.

It starts with pleasure or pain relief, but ends with no pleasure and plenty of pain when you try to quit. Listen to this man's story of trying to get out of pain meds dependence:

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