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"Addiction: the disease that makes you too selfish to see the havoc you created or care about the people whose lives you've shattered." -Addiction Treatment Directory Addiction can enthrall humans in many forms - love, sex, alcohol, drugs, etc. A serious epidemic sweeping the American nation is the opioid epidemic. The addiction to opioids, a severely dangerous class of drugs, have left newborn babies, adults, and even the elderly damaged and mentally dependent on the drug. My name is Sydney and I am a senior in high school. Reading, analyzing, and researching this current event has left me speechless and filled with an overwhelming mix of frustration and empathy for those struggling with opioid addiction. I have been surrounded by those who struggle with addictions for a good part of my life which has allowed the birth of empathy to those who battle to fight it, and frustration to those who don't try at all.
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Opioid Epidemic in the United States

The increasing and spreading epidemic of the addiction to opioids is sweeping the American nation. From infants, to grown adults, and all the way to elderly people - opioids are controlling and ruining lives. The increasing percentage of opioid abusers have been able to reflect the pregnant mothers under that category. The heart-wrenching outcome of a baby born from an opioid addicted mother results in the child itself with a co-dependency on the drug. The babies born into the care units usually stay for weeks, "as nurses try to offer them comfort through the tremors, fevers, and seizures." A newborn infant should not have to deal the withdrawals of a drug as their first motions of life. The age of the opioid addicted reaches the elderly as well. With their aging, elderly people face many physical and mental pains, leading to the prescription of opioid drugs. This treatment leads to addiction and lack of control of the substance. This problem is blowing up throughout ...
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