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Rehab isn’t intended to effect a cure for someone’s addiction. We don’t have a cure for anybody’s addiction.

Reliable stats on relapse can be hard to come by, but return-to-heroin rates appear to run above 80% (and in some cases, higher).

As far as polls and election results: Those aren’t very good ways to determine whether something is safe.

The addiction potential was so high it was classified with the controlled substances, and it’s uncommon to find it outside the Arab world.

A former national insurance exec observed that when you work in healthcare management, most of your day is spent looking at columns of numbers.

Sometimes it’s just a personal conviction that you (or human beings in general) need to experience some type of chemical euphoria in order to live a full and happy existence.

Everyone acknowledges the problem but accurate tracking seems to be a challenge.

Kids in the audience already know someone who uses drugs without appearing to suffer much from it. Assertions to the contrary by some stranger are automatically dismissed.

Then again, there was a time when heroin addiction was primarily an urban phenomenon, and that didn’t last.

If by chance the patient didn’t fit the physician’s preconception of an addict– he or she was a respected member of the community, for example– then the doctor often fell into the enabler role.