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The letter reported on an examination of medical files of patients who had been hospitalized and treated with small doses of opioids.The authors concluded that of the 11,882 patients who received at least one narcotic drug, only four of them had developed a "reasonably well documented" addiction among patients who had no history of addiction.
Reader-submitted letter of public opinion.
"Your addiction will not define your entire life," another teen writes in a letter addressed to their parent. "Whatever I write on that letter, I throw it in the water, and it's releasing that ...
My father lived in the Washington City Mission in Washington, Pennsylvania, a Christian halfway house that required sobriety, church attendance and concrete responsibilities. | Op-ed
In letters home from an abstinence-based facility in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, Kayla Haubner gushed about how she was taking to the program, but worried it wouldn’t be enough. “I’m so ready to stay sober,” she wrote in early 2013. “Believe me, I know how hard it’s gonna be when I leave here + go back into the real world. I’m safe ...
Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS), also known as Save Our Selves, [1] is a non-profit network of autonomous addiction recovery groups. The program stresses the need to place the highest priority on sobriety and uses mutual support to assist members in achieving this goal.
A brief letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in January 1980, titled "Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics", generated much attention and changed this thinking. [67] [68] A group of researchers in Canada claim that the letter may have originated and contributed to the opioid crisis. [67]
The book was meant to carry their message far and wide. Wilson started writing the book in 1938 [6] with the financial support of Charles B. Towns (1862–1947), an expert on alcoholism and drug addiction who was a supporter and creditor of Alcoholics Anonymous and lent Wilson $2500 ($41,870 in 2014 dollar values). [7] [8]