More people over age fifty are entering treatment according to Dan Duncan with the local office of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. He says that alcohol is the most common but there are a number of people using drugs more; drugs such as sedatives, pain killers, and synthetic opiates like Oxycontin. Older Americans are prescribed medicine with ease, without considering the patient's addiction history. "Synthetic opiates that have become so popular, in terms of being prescribed by physicians for all sorts of maladies, have turned out to be issues for a lot of people because they can be highly addictive".
Some elderly people end up getting addicted while trying to deal with:
- loss issues
- death of a loved one
- decline in physical or mental capacity
- financial
There is no age restriction on addiction treatment and it has the ability to work for those people who choose to work it. It is a hard journey to recovery, as any addict would probably tell you, but it is never too late to help yourself - if you want it.
Note: Alcoholics Anonymous just celebrated 75 years of recovery!
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