We know treatment works. This is the great age of discovery in the field of neuroscience, as evidenced by the outstanding research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. We know more about how addiction affects the brain than we do about many diseases, and we know that these effects without treatment are serious, disabling, and long-lasting. Addiction is a chronic disease that needs careful monitoring by trained health care professionals, just like diabetes or any other chronic disease. Breakthroughs in treatment research have been made, and we know treatment works, but we must be able to get treatment to the people who need it.
Treatment can make the difference.
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