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Experts Say Attack On Hunter Biden's Addiction Deepens Stigma For Millions

President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. called Biden "a crackhead." Researchers say that kind of humiliation puts many Americans with addiction at risk. Most people never get help because of shame.
Source: Alfred Gescheidt

When President Trump and Joe Biden faced off for the first — and so far, only — presidential debate late last month, Trump attacked his Democratic rival with a false claim about Hunter Biden.

"Hunter got thrown out of the military," Trump said. "He was thrown out, dishonorably discharged, for cocaine use."

That's factually wrong. Hunter Biden, age 50, received , from the U.S. Navy Reserve in

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