Prologue: In 2014, I administered a five question childhood abuse survey to my patients. In the 1980's I was a drug addict, in the 1990's I became an osteopathic physician, and since 2007 I have run an outpatient treatment program for low income and no income people who are addicted to heroin or opioid pain medications. The goal of this survey was to determine how many of my patients had suffered childhood abuse, for how long and, if there had been abuse, had it contributed to their drug usage. Given this was a self ...
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Prologue: In 2014, I administered a five question childhood abuse survey to my patients. In the 1980's I was a drug addict, in the 1990's I became an osteopathic physician, and since 2007 I have run an outpatient treatment program for low income and no income people who are addicted to heroin or opioid pain medications. The goal of this survey was to determine how many of my patients had suffered childhood abuse, for how long and, if there had been abuse, had it contributed to their drug usage. Given this was a self-reporting survey, I was anticipating a very low response rate due to the societal bias against talking about abuse which allows it to fester unchecked. However, to my surprise, over half of the respondents answered
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