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Wednesday, February 20th, 2019

This one shocking factor can make you 4600 percent more likely to become an addict

Author:     JOHANN HARI
Source:     Raw Story/Alternet/Commentary
Publication Date:     04 FEB 2019 AT 06:33 ET
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Stephan:   America does not like children. I have written about this at length because the data  overwhelmingly confirms this. Oh, sure you love your kids, that's not the point; as a country is the point. As a country we neither like nor value children except as little money cows to be milked. But even I, cynical as I have become on this issue and all the maudlin protestations I read and hear to the contrary, was unprepared for this research.  No wonder we have an opioid crisis that kills tens of thousands of people every year.

Credit: Child Rescue Network

One of my earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of my relatives, and not being able to. As I got older, I understood why. We had addiction in my family. And as I watched some of my other close relatives become addicts, I asked myself several questions, but one in particular seemed haunting and insistent: why does addiction so often run in families? Why does it seem to pass from mother to daughter, from father to son, as though it were some dark genetic twist?

I went on a long journey to find the answers to these questions – I describe it in my book ‘Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.’ My research was book-ended by two events that remind us why we need to urgently understand this.

On Feb. 11 2012, Whitney Houston was found facedown in a bathtub, with her bloodstream pumped by alcohol, cocaine, and prescription drugs. Almost exactly three years on, her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown was found facedown in a […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 2:46 pm

    My biological father as well as my oldest friend both died from alcohol poisoning and the associated liver problems. Therefor I think alcohol is the worst drug on the market. It does kill more people than any other drug and is so readily available. I gave it up a long time ago just because I decided a long time ago I would never allow anything to control my life like alcohol and drugs do.