To End the Drug Crisis, Bring Addiction Out of the Shadows

• By: Nora D. Volkow, MD The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• April 19th, 2022
• addiction, crisis, drugs, intervention, poverty, public health, recovery, Spring 2022 Issue, stigma, suicide
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When I was six years old, as I was having dinner with my mother and three sisters, my mother received a telegram. She broke down crying as she read it. Her father - my grandfather - had died. In her grief, she locked herself in her room and would not let me console her. The memory of my inability...

Making Addiction Treatment More Realistic and Pragmatic: The Perfect Should Not Be the Enemy of the Good

• By: Nora D. Volkow, MD The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• March 17th, 2022
• addiction, addiction treatment, chronic relapsing condition, drug overdose, harm reduction, opioid use, overdose prevention, recovery, Spring 2022 Issue
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Last year saw drug overdose deaths in the U.S. surpass an unthinkable milestone: 100,000 deaths in a year. This is the highest number of drug overdoses in our country’s history, and the numbers are climbing every month. There is an urgent need for a nationwide, coordinated response that...