My social media manager (that would be me) has fallen hopelessly behind. Some catch-up is in order.
I was recently quoted in a New York Times article on illicit designer drugs as treatments for addiction. The subtitle is a good summary: “Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of becoming free of addiction.”
The Osceola Sun published a long form interview for Mental Health Awareness Month. I discussed the link between mental health and addiction. Sometimes substance use begins as self-medication for mental health symptoms. Treatment of those symptoms is critical because they drive substance use — addiction treatment generally fails unless they are addressed. In other cases, mental health symptoms are caused by substance use. The priority is thus reducing or eliminating alcohol and other drugs.
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