Experts Say We Have the Tools to Fight Addiction. So Why Are More Americans Overdosing Than Ever?

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Harris had not given up either, though. His mother remembers how, just a few days before he died, the family was watching “Saturday Night Live” together over FaceTime. Harris was in a new treatment program in Central Florida linked to a local university, and he was excited about finally starting college. He also had a job interview lined up at a nearby mall for the following week. The police officers who went to his room afterward told her that his interview clothes were laid out perfectly on his bed.

“This all could have gone completely differently,” she told me. “Harris just needed to know how not alone he was and that he could learn to manage these things in time.”