In the fight against drug abuse and drug addiction, there have been several medications, such as methadone and Suboxone that have been proven effective.
However, unfortunately with the skyrocketing number of addiction cases, the clinics which offer these medications do not have enough available slots to help all in the area who need them. Combining this fact with another statistics that only 10% of addicts seek help, you can get the picture how urgently we need a substantially revised drug addiction prevention and treatment plan. This new plan needs to include all available resources, from the government and the private sector, all the way to the family unit in order to be successful.
By now we know that government money alone cannot solve the ills of the nation. Any urgent national problem should be considered and understood as urgent by the citizens of a society as well as the government of that society. We have poured billions of government dollars in drug addiction treatment and can show very little for it. Time has come to ask for value in return for the money we are spending. We need to identify the best resources for the solution to drug addiction problem and we need to have a way to measure our success. There should be some form of partnership between the government and the private sector to bring this out of control epidemic, at least under control in the short run, and perhaps reduce it to the status of "annoying issue" in the long run. It would be naïve to think there would be a day that drug addiction is completely eliminated. Like any other human vice, addictions have been part of human nature and will stay with us. Our best hope is to make it into a seldom occurring treatable disease.
In this scenario we may be able to eliminate the incidents of neonatal intensive care units treating drug-affected babies who are sick from the drug use of their mothers. We can decrease crimes related to drug use, the number of violent crimes and drug-related traffic accidents. We can reduce the incidents of 14 or 15 year olds invading their parent’s medicine cabinets to get their hands on prescription drugs. These are measurable results which if achieved can save us, as a nation, more than dollars. Achieving these results enhances the quality of life for a whole society.We need to address the American drug addiction problem with American drug addiction solutions that takes into account our specific national issues affecting this problem.
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