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National Substance Abuse Prevention Month 2022
Elizabeth Hirata Elizabeth Hirata

National Substance Abuse Prevention Month 2022

October is National Substance Abuse Prevention month in the United States. I’m sure if you follow the news, you have heard about the rise in recent years in drug abuse, drug overdose, and drug-related deaths in the United States. In 2020, for example, drug overdose deaths rose nearly 30% from the year before, resulting in over 93,000 fatalities.

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Is There Hope in Substance Abuse?
Elizabeth Hirata Elizabeth Hirata

Is There Hope in Substance Abuse?

In an age when almost twenty-one million Americans suffer from at least one addiction, 500 people die every hour as a result of addiction-related causes, drug overdose deaths have tripled in the last thirty years, and the cost of addiction in America is over $600 billion a year, where do we go for help?

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