narcotics abuse

In fact, even as states and localities increase the availability of overdose antidotes like Naloxone and heroin substitutes such as methadone, narcotics abuse has worsened during the pandemic.

Kiedis: I’m a person of extremes, and for most of the ‘80s — until maybe ’88 or so — I had gone down this rabbit hole of narcotics abuse.

Now, as President Trump speaks about how he will fight the opioid crisis, he has seized on the story of his brother as evidence of his empathy for addicts, saying that he can apply the lessons of that experience to dealing with the calamity of narcotics abuse.

His status as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and leader of a Democratic working group on narcotics abuse made Biden a key player in the rush to pass a final bill before November, according to published accounts of the bill’s passage and people who worked on the legislation.

If gonorrhea, syphilis or chlamydia, or chicken pox, or alcoholism, or narcotics abuse were to run rampant in “hot spots,” the problems would be declared crises.