TREAT ADDICTION AS PUBLIC-HEALTH CRISIS

Everyone has a right to be free from addiction. Recovery from drug
addiction is real for many Americans. Tens of thousands more get well
every year.

There is hope for those still addicted - hope for their families and
hope for safer communities - if we treat addiction as the
public-health crisis it is.

Access to recovery and support services should be readily available to
all who seek it. It is long past the time to maximize support for
those who are committed to ending active addiction.

Why did we decide to take freedom around the world and leave our
brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, friends and neighbors enslaved by
addiction for so very long?

Kay Phillips

Southside