Hochul said there are fewer restrictions on prescribing opioids
then treating the addiction.
Not exact matches
«Throwing them in jail and not
treating their underlying issue, which is their
addiction, doesn't help solve the problem with them and in truth, it costs us much more in dollars and cents to pay for it
then to actually
treat them,» said County Executive Mark Poloncarz, D - Erie County.
She added: «Of course it's a medical problem, I mean
addiction is a medical problem, and it becomes a public health problem and
then our society is choosing to
treat that as a criminal justice issue.»
Since
then, I've managed to gain control over my sugar
addiction, but from time to time, I fall into patterns of overdoing it on sweet
treats (who doesn't?).
But when your sugar
treats become a habit, it becomes a bit harder to say «no» to, and
then the sugar craving becomes an
addiction.
That's
treating whales as addicts, feeding their
addictions by requiring unbelievably high amounts of money for them or letting them quit, and
then we lose them.»
I believe
addiction therapy
then, is less about the problem behavior, and more about
treating the original issue.
Then the goal is to illuminate and
treat the underpinning issues which supported emotional dysregulation and
addiction.