This is a list of resources on opioid addiction that I am putting together for a talk to a community advocate group this Thursday.
The big picture:
CDC Grand Rounds: Prescription Drug Overdoses — a U.S. Epidemic, January 2012: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6101a3.htm
CDC 2018 (It’s not getting better yet.) https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0329-drug-overdose-deaths.html
Snohomish County:
Snohomish County:
http://mynorthwest.com/878895/snohomish-co-opioid-crisis/
http://www.heraldnet.com/news/state-house-backs-snohomish-county-opioid-help-center/
http://knkx.org/post/snohomish-county-jail-now-offering-medically-assisted-detox-inmates
Washington State Pain Law
https://www.doh.wa.gov/YouandYourFamily/PoisoningandDrugOverdose/OpioidMisuseandOverdosePrevention
Is it genes that make people addicts? (The short answer is genes are a minimal contribution. It is society and patterns learned in childhood and adulthood.)
Adverse Childhood Experiences (put people at way higher risk for addiction):
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/index.html
Books that helped me understand addiction (in my teens):
It will never happen to me by Claudia Black (about the patterns children take in addiction households to survive and cope with childhood)
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown (a black male writes about his childhood in Harlem when heroin hit the community. He was in a gang at age 6.)
Good resources! I put resource lists on my blog, too, when I give a presentation. A virtual handout is so much more useful than a physical one because you can click on the links.
Thank you! I find it hard to type in links, so I was trying to avoid that….