Trying to bite the 'elephant' of addiction [somdnews.com]

Alicia Doktor 11/29/178:00 AM

“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”

That was the advice Dr. Jerome Adams, U.S. surgeon general, gave to public health and law enforcement officials Monday during his first visit to Southern Maryland as the nation’s top health official.

The elephant in the room of Building B on the campus of College of Southern Maryland in Prince Frederick was the escalating opioid epidemic penetrating communities across the region, the state and the nation.

[For more on this story by DANDAN ZOU, go to http://www.somdnews.com/record...5e-f9fea87d0d5b.html]

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Leckey HarrisonMember

In my work with addicts, which is small at this point, it always goes back to a pain. I like that officials realize that treatment is necessary, but where was/is the SurGen on treatment in health care, which is under attack?

11/29/178:26 AM

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