The latest issue of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) claims that there are only about 200,000 past-month users of heroin in America, yet the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) said there were more than 260,000 people admitted to addiction treatment centers for heroin as a primary drug, and only a portion of those abusing or addicted to the drug receive help.
At the same time, the NSDUH claims that 4.7 million Americans abused, I mean “used nonmedically”, prescription painkillers. Do you know what happens to someone addicted to say, Oxycontin for example, when they can’t get that drug or need something stronger? That’s right – they turn to heroin in many cases. So what’s happening here is either the Federal Gov’t is covering up that the pharmaceutical industry and negligent doctors are responsible for creating heroin addicts, or the true numbers just haven’t surfaced yet for how many people “graduate” from pain pills to heroin. In either case, there is a hidden heroin epidemic that is currently going on or about to hit.
What do you think their solution is? To push methadone and buprenorphine – neither of which actually cure heroin addiction or prescription drug addiction – but they can be cured. Someone very dear to me was cured of Oxycontin and heroin addiction – no further symptoms or relapses – cured. That is just one tiny example of what is coming down the pipeline with The New Face of Recovery – people going through successful drug and alcohol rehabs and never having to admit they are powerless or diseased, never having to go to meetings and certainly not being worried about “taking it one day at a time.”
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