Medication that could help victims of opioid use wrapped up in politics
3WTKR
March 12, 2021
Advocates say there's a huge need for expanded access to medication as the number of victims affected by opioid use disorder continues to rise.
Looking at pictures of Adam Black in a bodybuilding competition, you'd never know that he's 7 years in recovery from opioid addiction.
use wrapped up in politics
By: Stephanie Stone
Posted at 4:07 PM, Mar 12, 2021
and last updated 9:14 PM, Mar 12, 2021
Advocates say there's a huge need for expanded access to medication as the number of victims affected by opioid use disorder continues to rise.
Looking at pictures of Adam Black in a bodybuilding competition, you'd never know that he's 7 years in recovery from opioid addiction.
“I hit a spiritual bottom and everything around me was falling apart. I couldn’t keep anything together in my life, the drugs become everything to you,” said Black.
When those drugs truly become everything to you, Black says, you "lose yourself."
He describes running out of money and says, "I couldn’t feed my addiction anymore, so I started breaking into unlocked cars, stealing change, trying to feed my addiction and, being an addict, I couldn’t do anything right, couldn’t even be a criminal right.”
He went to prison for three years, and then he ended up in the hospital.
“(I) Got heart surgery. I was like 150 pounds at the time, that was one of my rock bottoms, right there, that changed my life, that I can’t keep going this way.”
It was then that he was able to change. It wasn't overnight, but eventually he found Groups Recover Together, and received medication-assisted treatment.