Question

What can we do as individuals, community, state, or country to address the opioid problem?

Answer 1

Opioid can be defined as a class of drugs that are similar to opiates in their physioogical effects.

Opioid problem can range from anything from dependency to addiction.

In order to deal with this issue it is important to work on an individual, community, state as well as country level. This can be done by the following ways:

• Create awareness through campaigns in schools, colleges, communities about opioid problem.
• Through use of advertisements in mass media make people aware about the health risks of the same.
• Encourage talking about this issue publicly by first talking about it yourself.
• Government can create certain facilities in order to help people with opioid problem have someone safe enough to talk about it. Example a national helpline for opioid problem.