Thread: Addiction is complex. It's deadlier than ever. But there's hope. “We just had a newborn daughter,” Travis Rasco told me. “We're trying to buy a house right now. Something I never thought I deserved for the longest time.” @npr 1/ npr.org/2022/01/13/107… 
My story for @MorningEdition @npr explores data showing the majority of people who experience substance use disorder survive & often thrive. “This is really good news I think and something to share and be hopeful about,” said Dr. John Kelly at the Recovery Research Institute. 2/
@MorningEdition @NPR Racial bias makes recovery harder for people of color like Anna Mable-Jones, a Black woman who struggled to find treatment & was incarcerated. But after a decade-long addiction to cocaine, she healed. “I'm a homeowner, I own a car, I started my own business,” she said @npr 3/
Outcomes differ between alcohol and various drugs. Addiction is complex. Severe addiction is harder to beat and healing typically takes years. But even for people using hard drugs, recovery is the norm. "So there is absolutely hope," said researcher David Eddie. 4/ @npr
@NPR One takeaway from this research is the importance of keeping people with addiction alive long enough they can navigate multiple relapses that are the norm for substance use disorder. That's harder in the age of fentanyl. Nobody recovered from addiction dead," Eddie told me 5/@npr
Finally, deep thanks to everyone in the #addiction community who helped with this story, telling their stories, sharing their experiences. Again this is complicated stuff. We'll explore more of the nuances of recovery and healing from addiction in stories to come from @npr. End/
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