Most addiction results from attempts to self-medicate isolation, social disconnection, psychiatric disorders, trauma and severe economic distress. It’s not coincidental that the exponential rise in overdose deaths has occurred in tandem with a profound increase in income inequality. Punishing people for trying to feel better in a world that doesn’t seem to want them doesn’t help. (From New York Times Opinion Page, “How Fentanyl Drove a Tsunami of Death in America.” By Maia Szalavitz. Saturday, September 28, 2024
p.s. On a completely different note, who, reading this, remembers “A Healthy Woman is a Crazy Person?”
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