'What we're really dealing with is a trauma epidemic': Multiple resources needed to address opioid crisis [new.yahoo.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/26/2210:30 AM

By Emily Bader, Photo: Unsplash, Yahoo!, April 24, 2022

Generational trauma and the cycle of addiction is something that deeply concerns Jeremy Hiltz, the founder and CEO of Recovery Connections of Maine, located in Lewiston.

The opioid crisis is getting "worse and worse and worse," he said. But to focus only on the drugs — the opioids — alone is shortsighted "when what we're really dealing with is a trauma epidemic. This is generational trauma that is spreading the substance use issue."

Hiltz was adopted and he said the feeling that his biological parents abandoned him "never left me." To deal with the pain of that trauma, he turned to drugs.

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