Opiate and Heroin Addiction Explainer

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The opiate and heroin crisis in America was ignited by the F.D.A's decision to approve OxyContin in the mid 1990s. Since then, addiction to heroin and other opiates has spiked and the F.D.A has exacerbated the problem with reckless decision making concerning painkillers.

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"Education and employment is the key to staying clean I feel, a new focus in life is a good start but there’s plenty of other stuff needed to be drug free long term."

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