Individuals with addiction arising from trauma have been observed to die from their addiction.

“And now there's a pool for, for these drugs or sometimes medicines to soothe. So, the opiates that were given after a minor surgery, right? Are like, okay, yeah, they help the pain for the minor surgery, but what they're really helping is the pain inside, right? But that very quickly turns into addiction, danger, risk. And we see that over and over again and not in a theoretical way. Like I see that in people who have been in my practice with addiction, arising from trauma who have subsequently died.”