Intractable Addiction

There seems to be no end in sight to America's problems with addiction. Deaths associated with alcohol, drugs, and suicide took the lives of 186,763 Americans in 2020—a record number of substance misuse deaths in a single year and a 20% one-year increase. The 2020 increase was "unprecedented" according to the recent report, Pain in the Nation: The Epidemics of Alcohol, Drug, and Suicide Deaths, driven by a 27% and 30% increase in alcohol-induced deaths and drug-induced deaths respectively. These death rates increased in all 50 states except New Hampshire, and for the first . . .