Drugs Aren’t The Problem.
Nothing is addicting you.
Let’s focus on susceptibility, rather than obsess over behavior and symptoms.
Let’s focus on the protagonist in someone’s story, and then treat causes and conditions.
Think about how often you have a conversation about social determinants of health, considering the massive impact they have on a person, and then wonder why you’re not speaking about them more.
The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age as well as the complex, interrelated social structures and economic systems that shape these conditions. Social determinants of health include aspects of the social environment (e.g., discrimination, income, education level, marital status), the physical environment (e.g., place of residence, crowding conditions, built environment [i.e., buildings, spaces, transportation systems, and products that are created or modified by people]), and health services (e.g., access to and quality of care, insurance status).
This country’s obsession with drugs, those who make them, those who distribute them, and those who take them is killing us.
Who’s going to lead us out of this? Who’s going to finally stand up and say, let’s go upriver and find out why people are jumping in and really start changing lives? The answer is that WE get to lead us to the promise land where people are no longer stereotyped as addicts and alcoholics and the sent to stereotypical treatment-centered treatment centers as opposed to patient-centered programs.
If you do your due diligence and seek out modern research, instead of just accepting the company line, which got us into this terrible loop of death and suffering and grief, then maybe you’ll join me disrupting the business as usual approach. The stakes are too high to not try.
