Addiction is a crisis, not a character flaw: US surgeon general
For the first time, the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, released a major report on substance abuse, called "Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health."
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For the first time, the US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, released a major report on substance abuse, called "Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health."
The report "aims to shift the way our society thinks about substance misuse and substance-use disorders," Murthy said.