By Mayo Clinic
Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person's brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medication.
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Addiction, whether to drugs or other behaviors . . . is always a compensation for the sense of being devalued as a human being.
Per capita, Native American people are more likely than any other race to suffer from opioid addiction. In recent months, hundreds of cities, states and counties in the U.S.