Vitka Eisen, CEO of HealthRIGHT 360, a Bay Area-based group of health programs including Walden House and Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
Keith Humphreys, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine and former senior policy adviser at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
David Sheff, journalist and author of "Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy" and the memoir "Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction"
Click here to listen to the program.
Additional resources:
"What Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Tragic Death Teaches Us About Addiction" (KQED blog post)
"Spike In Heroin Use Can Be Traced To Prescription Pads" (KQED News)
1 comment:
It's really time we start treating addiction like a disease and not a crime. Locking people up isn't changing anything.
That being said something does need to be done. People out there need help. They want help and they don't know where to find it.
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