Join the battle to bust opioids and the ignorance that comes with it.
In this episode, you will learn more about OD deaths, what you can do to help raise treatment standards, lower the barriers to treatment access and address co-dependency in your own home.
- We will learn, again, that the vast majority of OD deaths involve multiple substances and the worst of them is fentanyl.
- Doctors are typically not trained in treating addictive disorder, but can prescribe opioids freely while they have to go through hoops to prescribe buprenorphine, or Subutex which helps addicts during withdrawal.
- You can help yourself and others by supporting the efforts by orgs like Shatterproof to change the law…raise standards and lower the barriers to treatment access.
- You can further help yourself by understanding co-dependency, which is caused by the insidious working of your loved one’s disease to believe that you need to control him so that you can be “normal”.
- You will see that you need to take care of YOU first if you want to have any chance at your own happiness.