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America’s Big Problem Gets Bigger

There is a lot that is wrong with the world today. A stagnating middle class, political unrest in the middle east, the threat and increasing reality of global warming. Partly as the result of a 24 hour media cycle, we hear incessant chatter about the challenges that we face as a nation.

However, there is one problem that people seem reluctant to talk about: drug addiction. I’m talking specifically about opiate addiction, which is an epidemic currently facing the US in unprecedented proportions. This is highlighted by a recent article in the New York Times that highlighted the fact that, for the first time in decades, white males are actually experiencing an increase in their rate of mortality. This is tied directly to drug abuse. Young white are particularly at risk, as this article demonstrates.

Addiction, however, knows no boundary. It doesn’t care what color you are, what your educational background is, or what your hopes, dreams, and aspirations are. This is one of the reasons that addiction is a particularly insidious problem facing the citizens of the United States today.

On the heels of this recent infographic by Withdrawal Ease, now is as good a time as ever to remind ourselves that addiction is a massive problem faced by the US and indeed by the world at large, and it will impact the social fabric of our countries whether we ourselves are users or not.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Barry Kane .