Changing Viewsovercoming Substance Abuse Often Takes Long Treatment

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BLOOMINGTON - A shift in thinking about alcohol and drug abuse could change how addicts receive treatment and how they are viewed in their communities, linking them more closely with diabetics than hopeless failures.

Joan Hartman, Central Region manager with Chestnut Health Systems, believes such a shift is long overdue.

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Changing Viewsovercoming Substance Abuse Often Takes Long Treatment

Hartman frames the question around an illness that affects many families: "Why are so we so sympathetic of people who have cancer and relapse but we ostracize people who relapse in their addiction?"

Stigma plays a major role, she said. "We're still not out of the shadows with addiction."

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