Drug addiction takes toll mentally, physically

Hunt1Jason Hunt, M.D., assistant professor of addiction medicine, was recently featured as an expert source in a Citrus County Chronicle article about opioid addiction.

“Once the brain has been hijacked it will force the individual to search for drugs with the same strength as it did for food and the rational part of the brain is unable to stop it,” Hunt said.

Click here to read the article in the Citrus County Chronicle.