Surgeon General: Addiction an Illness

Health News Florida recently sat down with Murthy at the annual Association of Health Care Journalists conference, and discussed some key issues he says are a focus of his time as Surgeon General: addiction, heroin abuse and HIV infections. Specifically, he said he wants to help change the way people look at addiction. It's a chronic illness, not a moral failing, he said.

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