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...