First Step to Ending Addiction Stigma?

First step to ending Addiction Stigma?
The treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts can be defined as a journey from drug dependence to a healthy, drug - free lifestyle.
The process is long and painful. Addicts need maximum assistance and care to be able to abstain from drugs and to break the addictive cycle, hence the need for comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation programms that conform to the biological, psychological and social needs of individuals.
In 2018, about 68,000 Americans died from a drug overdose, and an estimated 88,000 die from the effects of alcohol annually in our country. The estimated cost of the opioid crisis alone is $696 billion dollars annually in the United States.
From the Federal Government to State agencies, community-based social services organizations, and the criminal justice system, addiction is everyone’s problem. Yet too many people still see it as a moral failing. Professionally and personally, we know to the contrary that addiction is a chronic and progressive illness that impacts Americans from all walks of life, all races, and all faiths.
Yet private shame and public misunderstanding foster a formidable obstacle of stigma that too often prevents those struggling with addiction from seeking help. Research shows that only 10 percent of people who struggle with this illness are getting treatment at a given time.
Too often these people are either too afraid to ask for help, or do not know where or how to turn for help.
The consequences can be life-threatening.

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