Time Magazine Releases “The Opioid Diaries”
A picture is worth a thousand words and that couldn’t be truer than for pictures of people on opioids. The picture of a crying child in the back seat of a van while his two parents are passed out from a heroin overdose in the front seat or the picture of a young girl shooting up in a McDonald's bathroom or even the picture of a veteran’s dead body who overdosed on opioids in his sister’s guest bedroom.
The opioid epidemic is another public crisis in the book of American history and the Time magazine’s release of “The Opioid Diaries” reminds me of the series of 100-year-old pictures of 2,000 men in white uniforms cleaning the streets of New York City of filth and dead animals. The entire movement that began was the result of that photography exhibit which highlighted the poor living conditions of the citie’s poorest and frankly that photography exhibit was a catalyst for American society.
My hope is that Time magazine’s release of this digital exhibit of the opioid crisis will create enough of a public outcry that we can stop big pharma and drug distributors from drugging our population, and rather than throwing these addicts into the prison, that we instead get them into treatment.
According to a CNN report, an estimated 11.5 million Americans are abusing painkillers and the number of overdose deaths related to heroin increased by 533% between 2001 and 2016. These figures really do tell us that we need to take major action to bring this crisis to an end.
Should you or someone you know suffer from drug or alcohol addiction you should contact Narconon Arrowhead without hesitation and seek help. If your loved one does not currently want help, please don’t give up on them. Contact Narconon and we’ll assign an interventionist to assist your family in arranging a proper intervention to get them into treatment so they can achieve a drug-free life.
