The negative words we use to describe drug addiction – “clean” vs. “dirty,” “patient” vs. “addict” – can drive some individuals away from the very help they so desperately need. John Kelly, Elizabeth R. Spallin Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
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