Do-It-Yourself Detox Can Be ‘Freddy Krueger’ Scary — And Usually Fails

(By Elana Gordon, WHYY for Kaiser Health News)

By the time Elvis Rosado was 25, he was addicted to opioids and serving time in jail for selling drugs to support his habit.

“I was like, ‘I have to kick this, I have to break this,’ ” he said.

For Rosado, who lives in Philadelphia, drugs had become a way to disassociate from “the reality that was life.” He’d wake up physically needing the drugs to function. Continue reading article here…

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