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Psychedelics Could Play A Role In Tackling The Opioid Epidemic | HuffPost Life

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LSD and other long-demonized drugs could help with addiction recovery, research suggests.

Roel Smart More than 2 million people in the U.S. are addicted to prescription opioid pain relievers. Public health officials are calling the opioid crisis the worst drug epidemic in American history . Overdoses claimed more than 33,000 lives in 2015 , and these numbers are steadily on the rise. It’s estimated that over 2 million people in the U.S. are addicted to prescription opioid pain relievers, with many more using the drugs illegally. Potential solutions to the rapidly escalating opioid crisis have been few and far between . But a long-demonized class of illegal drugs may provide one unl

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