Overdose deaths exceed 100,000 again.

Seems to me that we currently deal with those overweight, with drug addiction and such with a combination of scolding and some support for change; that we fight against smoothing over the repercussions of their crutches and addictions like acceptance and clean needles. But what I try to keep in mind, is that re-routing from these behaviors is really, really hard. Harder than most anything really. First, we don’t really understand the mechanisms to help them meet the urgent need to feel better without using those crutches, and it is really hard to stay with such huge discomforts. Secondly, the actual process of fixing from this situation is brutal. Losing weight is very hard, frustrating, filled with uncertainty and conflicting information. Our bodies do not want to lose weight. Getting off a drug is brutally hard too – our bodies physiologically fight it.

So that’s my thought. I wonder what life would be like if we discovered better ways to make getting away from overeating, drugs and other crutches, how would we be looking.