The Addicts Next Door Summary

The victims of the huge opioid addiction crisis have been escalating dramatic in the past couple of years. The opioid crisis is affecting and destroying the addict's life, and the families that care for them. Reasons why addicts use drugs. In Margaret Talbot "The Addicts Next Door Talbot has a publisher explain how addicts feel. In Talbots "The Addicts next door" Michael Chalmers is a publisher of an Eastern Panhandle newspapers and observer feels that "people don’t feel like they have a purpose. There was a shame element in a smalltown culture. trying to escape the reality that this town doesn’t give them anything " he explained (Talbot 81).

The sign the of opioid addiction are vague and hard to recognize sometimes the sign are according

With finding the treatment groups and programs and deciding which is the best for your addict because. "there are no federal standards for counseling practices or rehab programs." according to Szalavitz (Para. 02). Some of the treatment of the rehab's can be deadly example "'Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew"', which many people see as an example of the best care available, for instance, used an approach that is not known to be affective for opioid addiction. More than 13 percent of its participants died after the treatment." (Para 02). According to Maia Szalavitz the "mainly of the overdoses can be prevented with the evidence –based care"(Para

Drew is just for the celebrities that are facing this drug impacts lives they have here are some others Solutions For example there is " the World Health Organization, the Institute of Medicine, the National Institute on Drug abuse and the Office of National Drug Control Policy according to Szalavitz (Para17). There is also a medication that can help with the intention of helping the addict but "families often wary of maintenance medications because they incorrectly believe that patents are "'always high"' or have simply "'replaced the drug with another". Szalavitz points out in (Para 18)

They also have sober houses and they can be useful and" necessary for the people to move away from their lives have totally wrapped up in drugs, expensive abstinence-only inpatient programs or unregulated "'sober houses,"'. In comparison it necessarily one of the best way to achieve this. For an addict can live safely for a long period of time is a different challenge for finding treatment; they don’t have to be considered a together combination. "Out patient can be tailored to a particular person's needs. Szalavitz points out (Para