Young people and adults who are not using addictive drugs and or have depression need an eye opener before control is lost. I have lost two friends just this year from either depression, drugs, or both. I speculate that if they touch real life experiences of peers, their paths might be changed. Mandatory courses, starting in high school, and meeting survivors, and visiting shelters and detox hospitals could change a person’s path.
The intention of medical schools to teach new doctors about opioid prescription and addiction should be embraced. We can not afford to let two to three years of medical training go by before potential victims succumb to addiction caused by genetics or the environment. According to the article,
Under the new training, medical students will learn how to assess and explain the risk of addiction before prescribing painkillers and how to manage substance abuse as a chronic illness.
The schools, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Medical Society and state Public Health Commissioner Dr. Monica Bharel, developed a list of 10 core competencies that will inform the training.
Readers: Please investigate the new initiatives by the Medical Schools.
Note: I would like to point out this blog and my book focus on changing a person’s path NOW and FASTER. We need to instruct young people and adults on the real life effects of their choices and actions. I want them to almost feel the fear and anxiety themselves.
Readers: Review the content in “A Challenge to the Executive Branch” and “Stop Addiction Before It Starts”.
Young people, other adults, and I did not have the immediate education necessary to help me stop. I committed myself on June 28th, 2014. The people I met those first two weeks were there because of their families’ intervention or legal mandates. In the closed door, prison-like environment, alcohol, suicide, and drugs were common denominators. Each day a good number of people bonded. Without outside stimuli, we focused on self-preservation. Larry, 49, had tried to kill himself due to depression and alcohol (unfortunately, without knowing, on his son’s birthday); Roland, 20, hit the limit with his mother who did not tolerate drug use; Paul, whose story is mentioned in “An event that haunts me” (an event 7 months after I met him in rehab), had a bad heroin problem.
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Remember, friends and acquaintances could be suffering or know others who are.
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