The blame game: Addiction is destroying our communities
May 3, 2021
In 2011, Big Cregg, who helped found Positive Directions, won a Jefferson Award for his outstanding work in the Bayview Hunters Point Community meeting people where they’re at in the addiction and recovery process and helping them find safety and change. Positive Directions Equals Change is a peaceful, open minded place for people in the neighborhood looking for support in drug and alcohol recovery.
by Big Cregg
The proliferation of fentanyl in inner cities, including San Francisco, has brought death and addiction. Who or what is to blame? Some say it is America’s insatiable consumer demand for illicit drugs and the constant flow of our guns, which arm the cartels. Others say it is the pharmaceutical industry.