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Podcast: High Truths on Drugs and Addiction
Episode: 213. Vaughan Rees and Connor Kubeisy | The Burden of Disease related to Drugs
Description: Disease burden is the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity or other indicators. When it comes to drugs, we are always talking about overdoses and deaths. The CDC predicted deaths in the US for the 12 months preceding March 2024, are over 103,000. That is horrible and unacceptable. Death is just the tip of the iceberg. For every death there are many more with a substance use disorder, as well as a host of medical and mental health conditions associated with drugs.Â
There are proponents of judging drugs like we do other health problems li...