Illegal Opioids Are Hurting Too Many of Us. We Need a New Approach
<p>After a five-day methamphetamine bender in 2008, Pattie Vargas’s son Joel returned to the family’s Southern California home, where he laid in bed for three days.</p>
<p>Vargas knew that her son, then 26, desperately needed help. But she had no idea where to turn.</p>
<p>She had family members and friends to lean on, but none of them had experience navigating treatment and recovery for a substance use disorder (SUD). “They were sympathetic, but they weren’t living it,” she says.</p>
<p>So Vargas turned to the only place she felt she could find answers: Google.</p>
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