Why help isn’t only a ‘yes’ away [theintell.com]

Alicia Doktor 3/19/184:00 AM

Caught up in the opioid crisis, people have to overcome many barriers to find their way out.

Luke Scrbacic feels like he’s caught in a perfect storm that keeps him using heroin.

At the center of it is fear of what he would suffer if he stopped.

“I’m so afraid of being sick,” he said, standing along one of the needle-strewn streets of Philadelphia’s Kensington section, his home for the past two years. The withdrawal triggers an agonizing pain unlike anything he’s ever experienced.

“The only way I feel safe is to have it in me.”

[For more on this story by Jenny Wagner, Kelly Kultys and Marion Callahan, go to http://www.theintell.com/news/...isnt-only-yes-away/1]

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