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(By Elana Gordon, WHYY for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

By the time Elvis Rosado was 25, he was addicted to opioids and serving time in jail for selling drugs to support his habit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018I have to kick this, I have to break this,\u2019 \u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For Rosado, who lives in Philadelphia, drugs had become a way to disassociate from \u201cthe reality that was life.\u201d He\u2019d wake up physically needing the drugs to function. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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