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What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid Addiction

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Re: What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid Addiction

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curun1r wrote: post #160
rajacombinator wrote: post #157

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Got any better suggestions? Genuinely interested, not sarcasm. (Mostly.)

Not the poster you're replying to, but I'd say mindfulness and meditation. Learning to look inward can be an incredibly powerful tool for dealing with issues like substance abuse.

I think those things have a lot of value but quite a challenge for the kind of person who struggles with addiction to make the leap to having the kind of mindset that would benefit from them.

Re: What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid Addiction

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warcher wrote: post #177
rajacombinator wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got any better suggestions? Genuinely interested, not sarcasm. (Mostly.)

It's happening, it's just happening slowly. Point of fact, addiction is a disease and must be treated like a disease. This is pretty mainstream and not really all that controversial. The issue we're working through, glacially, is that in the US healthcare is for-profit and junkies are not profitable. So we just.... throw those people in the garbage. I think that's both immoral and economically wasteful. I know former…

While I appreciate the "US healthcare sux!!" sentiment, that's a pretty naive viewpoint that underestimates the difficulty of the situation imo. Are there other non "for profit" healthcare countries that have substantially better results in this area?
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