A new campaign has made its way to Eastern Kentucky. The ‘Art Reducing Stigma’ campaign seeks to provide a place for people affected by the opioid epidemic to tell their own stories and “humanize” addiction.
“I think a lot of people don’t realize that this is an illness that does not discriminate,” said director of University of Rochester Medicine’s Recovery Center of Excellence Christine Lasher. “There’s not a certain look or feel, there’s not an age, there’s not a socioeconomic status or other variable that dictates that you’re going to get addicted to these drugs.”
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