Karen Wheeler
and Jay Wurscher
“Study finds possible treatment for meth addicts.”
Besides offering hope for a new weapon against addiction, that Page One headline in an Oregon newspaper unconsciously fueled a common misconception: “People don’t recover from meth.”
That view is so widespread that a survey of about 20 state alcohol and drug program directors found that this was the principal myth they are battling.
As one of our colleagues likes to say, “Recovery…