Chemical dependency in their immediate family or close by. From opioids to alcohol, addiction is at epidemic levels in our country. Have you ever tried to get clean . Most people dont realize that the Restaurant Business has one of the highest rates of drug and alcohol abuse of any industry in america. And its scrambling for solutions. Addiction is addiction, but recovery from addiction is more than just accident. Why do i know so much about this . Because im a recovering alcohol and addict myself. And this is my story. Im andrew zimmern. Storyteller, chef. Im looking at our country. Looking at the social and political questions of the day through the lens of food. I mean, there is no one solution. Sharing some amazing meals along the way. Minty, hot, and fresh trying to figure out holy moly whats eating america. New york city. 8 Million People all packed together, all chasing their dreams. I chased mine reserve mine under these bright lights. Until i flamed out. Today im 28 years sober. With the right support, every addict or alcoholic can find their own path to recovery. Our stories of struggle and redemption have a universal message. There is hope. Thats why im revisiting my past. Im also looking to the future. Where legal, political, and medical breakthroughs may one day revolutionize how we treat addiction. My story begins here on new yorks up ireast side. Can i get a slice . To stay or to go . To go. Thank you. Yeah. There are a couple of things we do really, really well in new york. One of them is pizza. My goodness, that is just a work of art. How is it . Yummy yummy . Delicious. There you go. I didnt want you to drip on the thank you. Youre welcome. New yorkers are friendly. Lexington avenue and 71st street. My old neighborhood. Thats the apartment i grew up in, had my first taste of booze there when i was little, mixing my dads drink, and i would take a little sip. There is a pharmacy on the first floor of our building. You could actually call down and say, oh, my mom wants such and such refilled, and you could get painkillers. Its how i first tried white crosses, speed. And codeine was i think the first pain pill that i abused. I was only 13. But already alcohol was in my life. Its fair to say we both started down the path together getting into drinking and drugs. Ive known clarke since we were kids. Dabbling at that at first, then it slowly became a bit more a part of our lives. I went to a prominent college. I smiled around friends and family. All the while i was drinking to black out, abusing prescription pills, and bingeing on cocaine and heroin. At the end of college i spent three years in japan. I remember coming back and rejoining my pals and going right back into that scene. But it felt to me as if something had changed. And by that i mean, something elevated. The partying and also the substances involved. New york city in the early 1980s was dazzling. All that excitement came with a dark side. Drugs and clubs were the scene. Especially for me and many of my kitchen friends. All of us aspiring in the highstakes, highaward restaurants of new york city. Everybody was cog drugs, everybody was drinking, et cetera. It was the wild west back then. Steven hansen is one of the most successful and respected restaurateurs in new york city. In 2007 he sold his hospitality company, be our guest, for 150 million. I was supposed to be right there with him. And i blew it. It was the mid 80s and i had been working a lot of different jobs around town. Cooking, managing restaurants. Steve hansen had wanted to open a restaurant and was very transparent about wanting to open many restaurants after that. We clicked. Its easy to see his talent. Hes exceptionally bright. He has hands and pulse on what was going on at the time. We ended up opening a restaurant together called coconut grill on the east side of new york. I think my official title was general manager. We were very, very successful from day one. It was like the doors blew open and there was andrew and i. When we expanded and i was making a little more money, i became completely unmanageable. I was stealing money, stealing booze, and drinking almost to black out every single night, doing drugs on the premise of the business that i was tasked to manage. I completely unwound. There were times when andrew was m. I. A. , didnt show up for work, was just gone. I knew any day walking in i was going to be fired. I dont remember what happened on termination, whether he walked or i said i had enough. My memory of it is hazy, only because, i mean, everything was hazy at that time. But for all intents and purposes, the job was no longer mine. We were together 24 7. Its like you lose your best friend. It was ugly because i made it ugly. It was sad because i made it sad. Weve never really had the opportunity to talk about what happened. Andrew hey, buddy. Well, i know how healthy you are, so i thought id bring you 20 pounds of pastries. Exactly. Unbelievable. Look at this. Turns out steven still has a letter that i wrote him 30 years ago. Oh, my gosh. I dont even remember writing it. This is dated march 15th, 1989, which is over 30 years ago. As of last week, it has come to light that over the course of several months i had defrauded the company to the sum of 571. 41. The stuff that i took, the people that i abused, the bottles of booze makes that number much bigger than that. Its further understood that my work will be scrutinized more diligently. Oh, my god. I was still working for you. You gave me another chance, and i only held it together for a couple months before i just yeah, you vanished 100 . I remember. You were nowhere to be found. I would be irresponsible if i didnt let this opportunity go by with telling you how much all that support meant to me. I mean, seriously. Im so grateful that we had that opportunity together. Im so glad that were still friends today. Steven went on to great success. Its amazing. While my life fell apart. I would be drinking around the clock, taking the money that my father was giving me to help me get back on my feet. He was giving me one last chance before ultimately he just threw up his hands. I eventually got evicted from my apartment and ended up homeless, squatting in an abandoned building on sullivan street with several other drunks. I slept every night on a pile of dirty clothes. Slept is really the wrong word. I would pass out. Every couple of days i would go to one of the little bodegas and i would steal or buy, depending how flush i was, a bottle of comet or ajax and sprinkle it around the clothes so the rats and the roaches wouldnt crawl over. That was my life for nearly a year. The high rate of addiction among restaurant workers has the industry actively seeking solutions. Im sara. Im an alcoholic. 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My reaction wasnt to get help. My reaction was, now where am i going to get my drugs . And i just left. My disease brought me to a place where i crossed lines i swore i would never cross. I needed money. So the easiest thing that i could do was to steal. With all of these cafes dotting madison avenue, i would walk past the tables, and if i saw a purse or a briefcase on a chair, i would just grab it and then run towards central park, heart beating a million miles an hour, praying nobody had followed me. Some people might have said that i needed prison. What i really needed was help. The meat cabbage tomato sauce. Sure is. And the beef salad. Thank you. Boiled pierogis and fried pierogis. Thank you. I love eating at veselka, but it reminds me of the darkest stage of my life. At every stage of my life, i have always wanted to be the ringleader. But im the loneliest person in the room sometimes. And then i wanted to literally be alone. And i just wanted to kill myself. And thats where my disease brought me. I tried to drink myself to death in a flophouse hotel. I told the guy no calls. I kept passing out. I woke up. I believe it was three days into this. And i literally plugged the phone back into the wall, called one of my best friends. I told him where i was and he came and got me. That was my friend clark. His large group of friends who really loved him, we decided he needed to go to rehab. So we staged an intervention. And the next day, he was on a plane. My whole life i was thrown a thousand life preservers, and i kept tossing them back because i didnt like the color orange. Finally i woke up and i was like, okay, im grabbing this life preserver. On january 28th of 1992, clark and my closest friends gave me a plane ticket to minnesota. One way. I entered what is regarded as one of the best Addiction Treatment facilities in the country. What is now the Hazelton Betty Ford foundation. After five weeks there, they recommended i attend Fellowship Club which was the hazelton halfway house. It was here at Fellowship Club that i met someone who is still a friend of mine today. Welcome home, man. Thanks, buddy. How are you . William moiers jr. Is the son of the legendary broadcaster bill moyers. Like me, williams addiction brought him to minnesota nearly 30 years ago. Hes now hazeltons Vice President of public affairs. So the living room, still a group room. Whatever was going on out there, we would bring in here and process it and talk through it and do it as recovering people early on in the journey. The beauty of this old house was also something that was very comforting. Everything that is good about my life today, i owe to the experience i had here. Because it was here i met the woman that would become the mother of my three children. It was here i learned more about the organization that i would ultimately work for. I mean, this was the end of my active using and the beginning of the rest of my life. A Sober Living Residence like this one provides a Safe Foundation of housing, counseling, and support so that patients can wade back into realworld responsibilities of work, family and selfcare. What does it feel like to be back here where it all started . If i think about it for more than 30 seconds, its really hard. Yeah. And it always happens. You know. I mean, how do you not . We would go to the same meetings on monday together. This is where we grew up. This is the place that gave us our life back. What gets me and what i think about the most is, why am i still here . I have friends who came here, who had gone through, who were several years sober, relapsed, and are no longer with us. I think about that every time that im here. I think about all those people. I had a recurrence of my use or relapse as people call it. I had that after i left here. But i knew i could come back to this community and that if i came back to this community, even if i came back stumbling or on my knees, that i would be lifted up. It taught me a crucial lesson. I am not alone in this. To have a place to learn and to grow where you are treated like a human being is the greatest gift that you can be given. Recovery from addiction is more than just abstinence. Its about learning how to relive your life or to live your life differently and to do so on lifes terms in the real world, which is what this place is all about. We opened in may, and i was in rehab in july. When i try to explain it to people that dont know, it was as if the sun had never come out. It was this darkness all the time. Thing, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a gold medal grizzly. sports announcer what an unlikely field in this final heat. burke not exactly a skinny dipper, but we covered it. At farmers, we know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. 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Dining out is a relaxing end to a long week for many of us. Yet, back in the kitchens, its a different world. The long hours, fast pace, and pressure for perfection are just a few of the reasons the Restaurant Industry has one of the highest rates of Substance Abuse in the united states. However, this very same environment that enabled me to hide my addiction this is so ridiculously good. Rekindled my passion for connection and food once i got sober. I eventually took over the reins of a kitchen in the french bistro of the twin cities. Being surrounded by some of the people in the same journey i was got me through the first five years of sobriety in a way nothing else could. The industry is now recognizing its addiction problem and is actively searching for solutions, which is why im in portland, oregon, tonight. May i . Please. Thats pretty rock star. This is the Second Annual ro portland, a Food Festival that also raises money for local charities. How is it . Its really nice. Guests pay to enjoy a multicourse meal prepared by incredible chefs, all of whom are recovering alcoholics and addicts. All right, these guys are ready to go. Albacore with huckleberry. Dry aged veal with peaches and shan that relevant mushrooms. This dinner is a big public expression of the value of sobriety in the Restaurant Business. What happens hours earlier is much more private and critically important. Im sara. Im an alcoholic. Hi, sara. This is a meeting of the portland chapter of bens friends. The restaurants own unique sobriety support group. I was in the Wine Industry for about 20 years. And my alcoholism really kind of snuck up on me. Knowing that there is this Diverse People that all share your stressors, speak your language, and understand your needs and are in recovery and not drinking and sharing that message, thats what i would call a safe space. And that was about two and a half years after i opened my own business. That unlimited access and keys to the bar 24 hours a day was basically the beginning of the end for me. Just a given youd come into work hung over, youd stand in the freezer for a little bit, youd put some bitters in your soda water and try and chug through for a while, until that stopped working. That almost killed me. It put me in a position later on in my life where i surely didnt want to live. I got sober because a sober coach inspired me to get sober. That was over ten years ago. Its refreshing to hear that the Restaurant Industry is changing. You know, im just hoping that i can be a part of that change. I just want to welcome you guys all to zero proof 2. 0. Back at the zero proof dinner, chefs and cooks have spent hours preparing. Now its show time. Just to get the elephant in the room out, i want you all to know that dinner is being prepared by alcoholics for you tonight. Mango silver needle tea. Its sublime, and it doesnt affect you from the neck up. So we can all drive home tonight. Cheers. Cheers this evening is all about amazing food paired with alcoholfree cocktails. What are you making . This is a coconut cocktail that were doing, so it is coconut water, white oolong tea, licorice syrup, licorice tea, and juniper. We have been told that alcohol is the only thing that goes well with food, right . We can make all these things go wonderful with food. This is all . Yeah, this is it. This is my friend mike solomonov. He is one of the most respected chefs in the world. A fivetime James Beard Award winner and coowner of 2019s best restaurant in the country zohov located in philadelphia. Mike is 11 years sober. This is that great veal that i think i had. We wrap it in cheese cloth and dry age it for one month. 300 degrees. Then we let it rest. Mike opened zahav in 2008. His addiction was in full bloom. We opened in may, and i was in rehab in july. When i try to explain it to people that dont know, it was as if the sun had never come out. It was this darkness all the time. And we opened this restaurant. And, you know, the pressure had built so much. Between being sick from withdrawal and just running out of all your options and all the [ bleep ] and all the lying to yourself, it was rough. And i couldnt do it anymore. Youve been sober awhile, ive been sober awhile. I feel like im not an arms length away from a drink or a drug after a lot of years. But i know if i lean an inch, its there. Yeah. And im not worried today about drinking. Today im worried about being a good dad. I have two kids that have never seen me high or drunk. I have two boys that have never known me to lie or to manipulate. The promises are true. It does get better, and its you know, its literally one day at a time. So i feel like we live it. Also this smells [ bleep ] amazing. Last year was the first year we did this dinner. We didnt know how it was going to turn out. The good thing is that we havent had a drink in a year, and we got invited back, which when we were drinking we didnt get invited back to things, so thanks for having us again. For me and many other people here this meal shines a lot on more than just great food. This is a disease that affects every single american one way or another, no matter how you add it up. I think what my addiction has taught me is that i am at my best when im one of many. Thats amazing when im thinking about someone else other than myself, my days are pretty darn good. Am i going in the room that says danger . You are. Fantastic. Is there something in our brains that can explain addiction . Revolutionary treatment may be on the horizon. Huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker . I look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. 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Good to see you. Thanks for coming out. This sergeant and officer dave sanders are part of a new approach to a persistent program. Well go hit some hot spots around town and see what we see. Yep. Its called the l. E. A. D. Program which stands for Law Enforcementassisted diversion. When cops come across lowlevel possession offenders, the goal is recovery rather than incarceration. Im here to protect and serve everybody. Addiction is no different. Working with people with addictions is absolutely no different. Yeah. We want to break the cycle. It doesnt take us long to find a group of people sitting on the sidewalk surrounded by hypodermic needless. Whats up, guys . Were okay. How you doing . You guys cooking up some drugs here . Hey, dave. Theres an open needle right behind you. All right. See a lot of syringes. You guys using drugs here . No. Dozens were recently used. Were not here to jam you up. Were not here to take you to jail. Were here to help you out. Rather than progress right into treating this as a criminal offense situation, the officers are actually approaching this as a how can we help you situation. Hillary is 28 years old. Im going to search you for more drugs, and then im going to talk to you about some programs that were involved in to give you some options on how to get to a better place. Hillary, how long have you been using . Off and on for about ten years. Ten years. Have you ever tried to get clean . These folks dont need to be taken to jail. What they need is an opportunity to get off drugs. You give them the dignity and respect that l. E. A. D. Offers, with all of their other services, like finding a place to live, then you are actually one by one solving the problem instead of throwing someone into the system thats not designed to solve the core issue. Hey, hillary, this is officer fleur and shes going to help in the search. Do you mind standing up . Did i hear you say that you have something in your shirt . The reason that shes being searched right now is for her own safety and the officers safety, right . Its more than a rinse. Who said that its mine . I wasnt really . Loaded works. In other words, drawnup heroin in the syringe. Right . I can tell you with experience as an addict, when you have your substance of choice removed from you, you can see the anger level rising. Go ahead and have a seat. This takes me right back to when i was using. I would do anything to keep my drugs of choice around me. And what if i told you i have a program that i can offer you . Its called l. E. A. D. , have you ever heard of it . No. It identifies your needs and what you feel your needs are, and you get case management, and its all working towards the process of getting clean. Okay. Is that something you would be interested in . Yeah. Okay. It takes effort. It takes cooperation. Thats what were here for. Multnomah county funds and runs the l. E. A. D. Program. And local nonprofit central city concern provides the services. The police call in case worker Brennan Edwards to identify what resources are available to help hillary. With respect ill continue to ask the questions about the best way to let us help you. Maybe it is food, housing, treatment. Maybe it is all of that. Is it working . I believe so. Yeah. We have been working with people who have made some pretty big changes in their lives. They feel a lot more validation having someone being there that cares about them regardless of their circumstances. It is hard to get clean. Good luck. Hillary didnt follow up on the referrals that brennan gave her. However, shes now in the l. E. A. D. System. And if shes stopped again, the help central city concern offers will still be there. As the mayor of this city, i am very honored to be here today to celebrate with you. The Success Stories are on display at central city concern day. Central city concern brings dignity forward. And in doing so, it brings us together as a community. This is portlands mayor, ted wheeler. There is some people who are scared of this population. What would you say to them . These are people, too. They are our neighbors. They are our friends. Theyre family. And i believe the Community Social contract, if you will, is to reach out and meet those folks halfway, help them find that path to redemption. Hello. Mr. Matthews, nice to meet you. Hubert matthews is one of the Success Stories. He found a path to sobriety to sobriety through the Services Provided to him through central city concern. Now he works there. I got employed with the l. E. A. D. Program which was dear to me because it worked with the people i came from. Because im from portland. Went to school here. I got high down here, right . So for me to be able to change my life around, its come full circle. I would imagine as a case manager, the ability to say, yeah, i was there too, is your most important tool. It is my most important tool because its real life. You know, nobody is perfect. We need more love and compassion and care for our brothers and sisters. We do. Because those people out there need what we have. Yes, some hope. Yeah, yeah. So that there is people like you out there doing this. Yes. Is just just makes me really happy. Its just its amazing. Yeah, thanks, dude. Someday we might have a small chip that could provide a stimulus relieving that obsession to use. That is what were working towards. Im your 70lb st. Bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. Ahh no, come on. I saw you eating poop earlier. Hey my focus is on the road, and thats saving me cash with drivewise. Whos the dummy now . Whoof whoof so get allstate where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. Sorry hes a baby its either the assucertification process. Or it isnt. Its either testing an array of advanced safety systems. Or it isnt. 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She treats homeless patients throughout manhattan. I would say about half the people are struggling with severe addiction. We do a lot of triaging as far as who has the highest need on a given day. And we are really trying to keep people out of the Emergency Rooms and avoid hospitalizations. How many of you are there . For manhattan, we have the equivalent of one fulltime Nurse Practitioner or m. D. Plus one fulltime rn. So thats two people for the island of manhattan. Thats correct. That sounds like a really, really busy job. Absolutely. Absolutely. This wellintentioned program is only a drop in the bucket in terms of addressing addiction issues in the city. Does it feel like tight . No, not tight. On the upper west side, we meet stefan. Hes 58 years old, same age as me. Hes been homeless since 2014 when he left an Addiction Treatment program. But me, i got attitude. Me too. Fu, kiss me just kept walking. Do you want to be sober, or does it not matter to you . Doesnt matter. I only have four people who care about me. I lost them. The rest was [ bleep ]. That was my attitude, too, 30 years ago. It took a lot for me to admit that anyone still cared about me. It took even more to accept the help they offered. And eventually i learned to care about myself. We really focus on Harm Reduction. Because maybe a person isnt ready or interested in going to detox. Explain that. Whats Harm Reduction . Anything that you can do to sort of like mitigate those negative consequences that somebody might come into because of their addiction or their street homelessness. We can prevent you getting hiv, hepatitis c. I consider it a success if i can make a meaningful improvement in someones health while theyre outside. Uhhuh. Try not to scratch at it if you can, and im going to bring you some cream to cut down on the itching. This is the crisis thats happening every day on our streets when youre fighting the illnesses of addiction and alcoholism. Its just heartbreaking because, you know, 30 years ago i knew people like that. 30 years ago that that was that was me. 30 years ago, our attitude towards drugs was shaped by Public Service announcements like this. Okay. Last time. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions . Our understanding of the Science Behind addiction has come a long way since the 1980s. And whats happening right now is nothing short of revolutionary. Researchers at the university of minnesota are studying the brains of addicts to try and understand why they relapse. The university has Mri Technology thats so precise, its paving the way for groundbreaking therapies. Today theyre taking a closer look at the brain of an addict with 28 years of sobriety. Mine. The center has some of the highest field strength magnets in the world. We do cuttingedge research of mapping out the connection between different brain regions. Am i going in the room that says danger . You are. Exactly. Im going to have you lay down here. You can have your eyes open or closed, whatever you are most comfortable with. Okay, andrew. Were ready to run the very first scan. Good to go . Good to go. These highresolution scans are able to capture brain wiring in graphic detail. All right. Go ahead and sit up. All right, andrew. Lets take a look at your brain. Just looking through projections of your brain. There is your eyeballs in the front of your brain. Where is the giant blue nodule that says anything that makes me feel good, i want more . Thats the nucleus accumbens, the part of the brain that whenever you use drugs or alcohol or any type of pleasure, it fires up. That pleasure center, the nucleus accumbens, is supposed to be regulated by the prefrontal cortex. Intense chronic experiences like Substance Abuse can interrupt the normal communication between these regions. People that use that, that synchrony, are usually the ones that relapse. In other words, the make me feel good part is like, make me feel good, make me feel good right. The cerebral cortex, which is reason and everything, is saying, hey, wait a second, maybe not such a great idea. Right, right. So what were doing now is trying to enhance that with brain stimulation to help people stay abstinent. In the Addiction Research center, neuroscience director dr. Thomas is looking for a solution. Were learning how the brain changes with drug exposure. Now we want to modify the brain. We can do that by using light stimulation. We make very specific parts of the brain sensitive to light in mice, then we can activate or inhibit those brain regions and see how that affects the animals behavior. In other words, maybe increasing the healthy pathway in brain activity . So someday in the future we might have a small chip or small device that just could attach to the side of the head that could provide a stimulus for human beings that would help them by relieving that obsession to use . That is very possible. That is what were working towards. You guys are doing outer boundary of the universe, groundbreaking work. Thats amazing. Im glad its happening in minnesota, where i got sober. Thank you. So are we. We got to remember thats why we love our country, because we have each others backs and we take care of people. I think we need a little bit more of that in the white house. Even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. So if theres a better treatment than warfarin, ill go for that. Eliquis. Eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. Plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. Eliquis is fdaapproved and has both. Whats next . Sharing my roots. 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Ive never tried potato chips. You want to try some . Oh my gosh, thank you the food. The people watching. The family fun. Its an experience like no other. So heres the deal. At the iowa state fair, a lot of things theyre known for. If you had to pick just one thing its pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, right . This state famously raises more hogs than there are people who live here. Thank you very much. Oh, well, we got to i mean, come on. Doesnt get any better than that, does it . Crazy. Mm, wow. Thats not good barbecue, thats great barbecue. Cant go wrong with a pork shank, can you . While famous for all things pork, the iowa state fair is also a key stop for candidates on the president ial campaign trail. Our chance in 2020 is to fight back. We have to bring our country back together again. I know how to get it done. At this point in the campaign, my home state senator, Amy Klobuchar, is in the thick of the race. Hey, there, how are you . Hi, really good to see you. Senator klobuchar knows as well as anyone what addiction can do to a family, as she revealed during the Contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearing of brett kavanaugh. My own dad struggled with alcoholism most of his life. And he got in trouble for it and there were consequences. He is still in aa at age 90. And hes sober. And in his words, he was pursued by grace, and thats how he got through this. Im great, got my cheese curds. The childrens portion . Please, ive been eating all day. Im here to talk to the senator about the political steps we have to take to combat addiction. One out of two families have chemical dependency in their immediate family or close by. Youre a mom. Youre a wife. Youre a daughter. Youre my senator. Is this something that you really carry with you every day . It is. And part of that is that i dont always see things in stark terms, mostly because i see the gray because of my dad. I always loved him no matter how much he messed up or didnt make it home on Christmas Morning or had to take the keys away from him when i was in high school because he was drinking out of the back of the trunk of the car. I always loved him. When you feel that way about someone, when you see it with other people, you always believe there may be some redemption. Reporter senator klobuchar has made addiction and Mental Health a focal point in her campaign. Addiction, Mental Health, infrastructure. Putting a president in place thats going to have an optimistic economic agenda thats going to take on these issues and get them done. She has proposed a 100 billion, threepoint plan focusing on prevention, treatment, and ongoing recovery. Why arent more people behind it . Its not a red or blue issue. No, no. I think what it calls for is leadership, and it calls for finding ways to pay for things and being straightforward with people and saying, we need to get this covered, were tired of just hearing, oh, were going to do it. Also look at prevention so we have less people going down this road. What do you say to people when youre out crisscrossing the country who say, well, why wouldnt we want to just put those people away and ignore them . Because everyones going to see something happen in their own family or to themselves. It may not be addiction or Mental Health, but it may be something thats not fair. I remember the words of casey jo, champion swimmer from minnesota. She got hooked on opioids out of the emergency room when she was sick. She went on to illegal drugs. She ended up dying. The last words she said to her mom before she died was, mama, its not my fault. And i think a lot of people can say that. About addiction. And weve got to remember, thats why we love our country, because we have each others backs and we take care of people. I think we need a little bit more of that in the white house. My greatest disaster in life, the thing that almost killed me, is now my greatest strength. And sharing that with the world has kept me sober, has given me a life that i never dreamed was possible. And i know that thats available for every Single Person out there struggling with this disease. Good luck. If theres something that the sober world can teach everyone else, its that dignity and respect, when its sprinkled on human beings, is the most powerful drug that we possess. A tough assistant d. A. Gunned down. But wasnt over. The dead mans boss and his wife were next. Whoever went in there had a mission. Did you think there was a list . Oh, sure. I dont think there is any doubt that this is a serial killer. Someone had declared war on Law Enforcement and their families. Unless you know its me, be re