Obama Affirms at Drug Summit That Addiction Is Disease, Not Moral Failure [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 3/30/1612:00 PM

President Obama addressed the country’s growing opioid addiction epidemic at a panel discussion in Atlanta Tuesday, stressing to the 2,000-plus listeners that addiction is an illness and not a moral shortcoming.

He also emphasized that more people are dying each year from opioid overdose than from car crashes.

The panel, moderated by CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, featured a young man who shared his story of becoming addicted to opioids as a youth, according to attendees.

[For more of this story, written by Lynn Anderson, go to http://jjie.org/obama-affirms-...oral-failure/219134/]

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