Today’s opioid crisis is really a broader mental-health crisis, according to an I-U psychiatry researcher.
Andrew Chambers told a statewide opioid summit Wednesday that opioid addiction usually appears alongside other addictions or mental illnesses. He says addiction literally rewires brain cells, in the same way as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, but unlike those diseases, the changes can be undone. Chambers says that’s the real problem. He says America’s mental-health infrastructure has been decaying for the past half-century.
