Month: October 2014

Growing out of addiction?

Maia Szalavitz at substance.com leverages a range of statistics to argue that the best treatment for addiction is ageing: the average alcohol addiction is resolved within 15 years. Heroin addictions tend to last as long as alcoholism, but prescription opioid problems, on average, last five years. In these large samples, which are drawn from the…

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