Hello, my name is Conan Milner and this is Words of Wellness, a show where we talk about health from mind body to spirit.
Today I’d like to focus on addiction.
Addiction is typically characterized by individuals who develop a strong and seemingly uncontrollable dependence for alcohol or some other drug of choice. Substance abuse has been a scourge for decades. Yet despite many attempts to address the problem, it only seems to be growing worse. opioid addictions, for example, have steadily risen since 1999. With all the attention given to the opioid epidemic, an even sharper spike in related deaths over the last few years reveal we are further than ever from the solution….