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Please say thanks. Before we begin, please silence all of your devices. We hope you are following us on social media today and if you are, please use theev hash tag gbf. At the end if you can fill out a survey in the back of the tent or online will be entered to win a 100 visa gift card. Doctor sederer will be signing books after the panel, so copies of the addiction solution are available in the politics and prose book tent just around the corner there. A quick word about buying books. This is a free event but it does help the festival if you purchase books from the speakers. Not only does it think the olfestival possible, but it also supports i politics and prose which is a wonderful independent bookstore in the dc area. So if you can buy the book, please do. Okay, so doctor Lloyd Sederer is an adjunct professor at the Public Health and contribute a writer for u. S. News world report and chief medical officer for the state office of Mental Health and is a monthly regularh on xm tell
Dont fly at all being put on the list and obviously its one of those things that as an internal government list is one thing but when the fact that its shared quite a bit and once its that your name is on there it goes on for a really long time. And the bad things about that happen its a reactionary things that happen that happened in the shadow of 911 that at some point you have to take back but you just theres no no one no one has the gumption. No matter what to go back and undo what bush and obama and. Everybody did not even trump for all of this is pandering about how he was going to come in and change all of these things and take back all this stuff that have been. You know we havent really seen anything different and i dont i dont know that were not going to see that from anybody no i mean guantanamo still open thats very true theres a good point the interest on shibley was a plaintiff with the lawsuit would lead to you know they did have this one glimmer of hope kind of come hom
You will be entered to win a 100 visa gift card. Dr. Sederer will be signing books. This is a free event but helps the festival if youve the books from the speakers little make this festival possible and supports politic and prose, a wonderful, independent book store in the d. C. Area. So if book the book, please. Do okay. So, dr. Loyd sederer is an adjunct professor, a contribute you rite for u. S. News and world report and chief medical officer for the officeMental Health and a regular on in 2013 given an award for excellence in teaching residents about the American Psychiatric association which in 2009 gave him recognized him as psychiatric administrator of the year. His new book the addition solution which is what well be discussing today. Please join me in welcoming dr. Sederer. [applause] thank you for coming. So i like to start with a broad question and to get more specific. The field of addiction and the prevalence of addiction is a moving target and evergrowing and seems intra
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