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a devastating epidemic
we just didn't know what to do we just
felt powerless a parent's worst
nightmare find my kid not breathing
he was always very good at telling us
mom and dad everything's gonna be fine
but it wasn't addiction is ruining lives
and ending them too soon
overdose is the number one cause of
death for people under 50 we are racing
against time we have the equivalent of a
Boeing 737 crashing every single day but
what causes addiction individuals
struggling with addiction are actually
battling millions of years of evolution
because our brains are exquisitely
evolved to seek rewards
it's those cravings the inability to
stop
a dangerous cocktail of biology and
medicine made deadlier by a drug 100
times more potent than morphine fentanyl
is super toxic so you get a batch that
comes on the street that's a little bit
hot and on those days it's like bad
somebody's going down bad or somebody's
going down BAM
but can new treatments offer hope we
have extremely effective medications
that are life-saving this is a very
treatable illness the solution to this
is for us to embrace the dictionary
disease to bring it within the House of
Medicine people recover from addiction
nobody is unreclaimed
the only thing that you can't recover
from is death addiction
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