I can't help but think a huge uptick in the prescribing of benzodiazepines, coupled with huge increases in alcohol consumption, and then, of course, coupled with the new commercialization of marijuana, that we don't have a kind of major tsunami of addiction that we are creating right now that is not going to be fully realized for another few years.
Kennedy warns of a potential addiction crisis due to rising substance use during the pandemic.
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In other parlance, it is countercyclical, right? When you have an economic downturn, Medicaid enrollment increases, right?
Clearly, the Federal Government has failed here multiple times over, and I would--I'm just curious.
systemic underfunding of healthcare on these reservations was having a devastating consequence to the health of Native Americans across our Nation.
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