Heroin Support Blog
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People need to get educated on addiction, so we can change the stigma surrounding the social label of ‘JUNKIE’
“People need to get educated on addiction, so we can change the stigma surrounding the social label of ‘JUNKIE’. Addiction is a brain disease. It’s not like they can just make a choice to stop and it’s over. This disease changes the functionality and structure of the brain. Most of them hate the life they live each day as they are labeled “a social outcast who grow up wanting to be a junkie”. They have a hard time finding affordable and available treatment beds. With other diseases we are quick to make life better for those people but why not for addicts who suffer from the disease of addiction? Addicts are good people with a disease and deserve to be treated the same respect and understanding as you and I are in life.”
- www.HeroinSupport.org
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