Sam Seder
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Evangelicals Hate Treatment, Prefer Opioid Addicts Just Die
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October 7, 2018
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"“I heard it was ‘just pills’ over and over,” she says. “It’s so hard for parents to imagine their children shooting up heroin, especially if they never miss a day of school or work — right up until the moment they find their needles hidden in their kids’ closets, next to baby blankets and soccer trophies. Particularly in affluent communities, it is easier for young adults and teens to hide their heroin addictions longer because they have money to keep their supply steady.”
What “Dopesick” makes painfully clear is how easy it is to get addicted — and how hard it is to find help for addiction. “Where I live, in Roanoke, so many barriers remain,” Macy says, “from waiting lists to get into medication-assisted treatment programs, to not enough doctors willing to treat the addicted, to law enforcement officials who have come out against syringe exchange/recovery programs, which are low-threshold access portals to hepatitis C and H.I.V. testing and treatment, and — most importantly — places the addicted can go for referrals for treatment. There is agreement that addiction is a disease, but no consensus on even the most basic treatment.”"*
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