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Psychiatrist Robert L. DuPont, MD, has been campaigning against opioid addiction for 50 years.
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In a new Q&A, he says that the opioid crisis, “the defining epidemic of the 21st Century,” needs a “new narrative.”
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“What’s killing these people is not just opioids. It’s opioids in combination with other drugs of abuse.”
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“The global illegal market is switching from agricultural products to purely synthetic drugs.”
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“So illegal drug users … are able to buy more drugs, at higher potency, and lower prices, with more convenient delivery, than ever before.”
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“We need to end the war between the treatment modalities.”
Read the full interview at:
https://opioidinstitute.org/2018/05/08/drug-policy-expert-robert-dupont-the-opioid-crisis-is-now-about-synthetics-and-polydrug-use/
