President Unveils Plan to Combat Opioid Drug Addiction

Drug, specifically opioid has become more rampant in today’s time. Addiction to it has led to different problems affecting everyone in the society. Generally, the fight to combat addiction has been more and more intense but the number of people using drugs is constantly increasing as well.

In the United States alone, the opioid epidemic has been reported to be acute and the President has announced its plan on how to combat this problem. The plan includes the use of death penalty for some drug traffickers.

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Speaking March 19 from New Hampshire, where the opioid epidemic is reported as acute, President Donald Trump announced a plan to combat the opioid epidemic.

According to TheHill.com, the plan “includes the controversial idea of using the death penalty for some drug traffickers.”

Reducing the demand and overprescription of opioids, cutting the illegal drug supply, and boosting treatment and recovery services are part of the “Safer Prescribing Plan.” The plan, says the article, “includes incentivizing states to move to a national database monitoring opioid prescriptions to help flag people requesting numerous prescriptions.”

The National Institute on Drug Abuse notes, “Every day, more than 115 Americans die after overdosing on opioids. …The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total ‘economic burden’ of prescription opioid misuse alone in the U.S. is $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.”

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Local Dads Hope to End Stigma Surrounding Drug Addiction

Death by drug: 16 Families that Lost a Loved One to Drug Addiction

What can be more painful than losing a loved one? Worse is, when you lost them to drug addiction. Drugs is a problem that could have been prevented. But it is also something that when gets involved with it, getting out may not be easy at all. This is why in the recent years, there has been a higher demand for drug addiction treatment center because more people are needing them.

The fate of some Indian people has been very unfortunate because of drugs. There are 16 families who have lost a loved one to drug addiction. This reality is just so difficult to bear and hopefully, there will be no more lives that will be lost by ending this problem asap.

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Teeka (injection) and chitta (heroin) — these two words continue to haunt families in Punjab who have lost their members to drug addiction. The Congress government had promised to wipe out drugs in four weeks, and has claimed to have broken the back of the drug trade. Indian Express spoke to 16 families that lost loved ones to addiction over the last year. From what these families said, drugs remain available in Punjab’s towns and villages, and without an adequate health intervention yet, addicts still have no hope.

GURLAL SINGH: 24, a final year B.Sc agriculture student at a private institute in Mandi Gobindgarh

Resident of village Ghaloti, Dharamkot, Moga district

Died : July 22, 2017

How: He was found by his mother Kuldeep Kaur lying unconscious with froth coming out of his mouth at their farm. He died by the time he was rushed to a local doctor and then a hospital. “We knew he was doing drugs. First we did not believe but then there were signs. Suddenly he started demanding more money. We got a de-addiction course also done but the effect did not last long. We have no idea where he got it from. We never allowed any of his friends to step inside our home. Whatever he got was outside home or in hostel. He mostly took chitta (heroin). Whenever we confronted him, he never accepted it,” says father Major Singh. Mother Kuldeep Kaur breaks down. “Saddey vargeya naal ki vaada, saada sab kuch jaa chukka hai (Promises mean nothing for us now. We have already lost our everything,”she says.

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Suicides, Drug Addiction and High School Football

One of the most painful things about addiction is when it affects the lives of the innocent ones. Drugs, in an instant can turn the lives of every youth who gets involved with it. These innocent people- who are supposed to be enjoying and making the most out of their lives end up trapped in the influence of drugs. What’s worse is when they decide to put an end to their own life.

In Madison, there has been an opioid epidemic where the effects have been heart-wrenching. This is the kind of situations that need help from the best drug addiction treatment centers, as well as support from family and friends.

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MADISON, Ind.—An hour’s drive from Louisville, perched along the Ohio River, sits the prettiest little town.

Madison, population 12,000, has won awards for its beauty. Best Main Street. One of the top 20 romantic towns in Indiana. One of 12 distinctive destinations in the United States, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

It’s all a lovely distraction from an open secret. On a reporting trip in July, I learned this in the unlikeliest of places: at Horst’s Little Bakery Haus, a doughnut shop with just a few tables, not far from the river.

A waitress had overheard me interviewing someone at the bakery earlier, and asked if I was a journalist.

She checked over her shoulder to see if anyone was listening. There was an urgency in her whisper as she said: “I lost my son last month. He hung himself from a tree in our yard and shot himself in the head. I cut him down myself, with my own hands. So many suicides.”

 

 

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