Ouch.
“Isolation is really one of the toughest things for people with addiction. It’s easier to drink and to use if people aren’t noticing you. I think it’s easier to hide out,” Pierquet-Hohner said.
Troubling data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed the dangers of not getting help.
From September of 2019 to September of 2020, there was nearly a 30 percent increase in drug overdose deaths across the country. In Wisconsin, the rise was 27.9 percent over that same time period.
“People when they take a substance like an opioid, it sends off pleasure responses in the brain that sort of tell people, ‘oh. this feels good,’” Dr. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar said. She’s an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
As Le Roi has said in the past, it’s their own fault. They are just weak people.
(Un)intended consequences.
“People when they take a substance like an opioid, it sends off pleasure responses in the brain that sort of tell people, ‘oh. this feels good,’” Dr. Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar said. She’s an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
Whoo boy, how much did she spend on education to be able to tell us what virtually every school drop=out could have pointed out first hand? Next she will tell us what every 7th grader has heard many times: ‘These feelings of goodness are bad for you, though. Don’t do drugs!’