What we need is a better understanding of addiction and better methods to treat it. We changed the rate of cigarette smokers from half of the population in 1965 to about 10 per cent today ...

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The opioid crisis plus other letters, Feb. 23: ‘I encountered a former teacher whose path to addiction began with a prescribed opioid after a car accident’ Contributed to The Globe and Mail ...