Is Opioid Addiction a Choice? An interview with Jamie Redwing MD.

Tiger Resilience episode features an interview with Jamie Redwing MD, an addiction specialist - medical practitioner. Topic focuses on assisting families/friends understand that opioid addiction is not about moral or character failing. 

The truth is that science has confirmed that addiction is a chronic brain disease that can happen to anyone. Yet many still popular subscribe to the belief that addiction is the result of weak character or moral failing. We say that addiction should be looked at in the same way that we view other chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension and cancer. If this is true, why are those diseases are not regarded with stigma and shame in the way addiction is? 

Tiger Resilience provides integrated, self-serve, practical addiction educational programs that are specifically focused on the family members, not the addicted person.