1. Challenging Social Stigmas that come with mental health/addiction care
1.1. Using people with large social platforms such a music and movie performers and getting them to share their own stories of addiction in order to break down stigma's of what kind of person we think develops addiction.
1.2. Spread more information that details just how a person can develop an addiction and how it can be due to certain things such as chemical imbalances or predisposition to mental illness and is not someone necesarily making a choice to become an addict.
2. Finding solutions to factors that effect the continuation of the opioid epidemic
2.1. Treating addiction as a health issue instead of a criminal one as a way to promote more people into the treatment they need.
2.2. Decriminalize possession of certain drugs so that we do not keep people in a constant state of trying to get back on their feet from being unfairly fined or jailed when addiction treatment would be a better replacement for capital punishment.
2.3. More restrictions/tracking of how frequently pain medications are prescribed in order to help hold doctors who may be over prescribing more accountable for their actions and also to promote more alternate forms of care that don't involve prescribing pain medication.
3. Changing how societal norms influence our drug taking behavior
3.1. Introducing new norms that promote a healthier idea of what a good relationship to medication can look like.
3.2. Making having routine check ups for your mental health as common place as yearly physical check ups already are and promote a culture ath values mental health positivity.
3.3. Promoting the norm that taking medication for whatever reason does not diminish that persons value within society.
4. Role that Media plays in drug taking culture
4.1. Understanding how negative depictions of addicts in movies and television effect how society views/treats victims of addiction.
4.2. Media could be used instead to disseminate knowledge that benefits addicts and helps to reverse preconceived notions previously set up by decades of false narratives.
4.3. Media could do a better job to hold others who spread misinformation or broad generalizations of addiction accountable and to expose how those untruths aren't the norm.
