Trying To Explain Heroin To The Concerned Father Of An Addict
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The son carried diagnoses of anxiety and depression and had been prescribed the usual culprits: antidepressants, tranquilizers, antipsychotics, and probably an anticonvulsant or two from the creative thinker who deduced bipolar disorder from the mélange. The father was bewildered by all of it. He knew heroin was the enemy, responsible for all the ravages. But why couldn't his son stay clean?
By Daniel Mierlak, MD, PhD, ContributorGeneral and Addiction Psychiatrist, 2014-11-10