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Addiction: many adolescents addicted to opioids
Addiction: many adolescents addicted to opioids – (franceinfo)
Many adolescents struggle with opioid addiction. This is particularly the case of Stéphane, 18, who became addicted after suffering harassment at school.
Stéphane, 18, is out of school. For the first time, accompanied by his mother, he dares to consult this addiction service. The young man began to take Tramadol, an opioid medication prescribed for pain, after a year of school bullying. To feel better, he keeps increasing the doses. It is easy to buy them on the Internet. His parents feel helpless.
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Today, Stéphane has decided to stop, but alone, withdrawal is too difficult for him. The psychiatrist offers several types of care, including that in a day hospital with a multi-professional team, and numerous activities. The danger these days is that opioids are consumed with other drugs or, regularly, in the evening in cocktails that we can see on social networks.
