Of there was a provision that said every state to get money from the feds had to set up a Revolving Loan fund to help create self run so support recovery houses based on the oxford house and that was put in there in large part because cspan covered a hearing in 1983 members of oxford house testified about their success living in the oxford house that spread and by Fall Congress put in the provision so of course, a major part was the creation of the drugs are ended almost every convention we have had the honor of them coming in this year is no exception. Richard bomb is the acting director of the White House Office of drug control policy and teaches at georgetown and is a friend of our board. All of those together would be enough but in addition he has been the power behind the scenes in dealing with the president s task force. The al looking as looking at the open your a crisis. It has come out with a report to say lets call this an actual emergency and do some other specific things to
Withstood the issues of traduce and going through the a Opioid Crisis the key to remember is in the midst of this crisis and in the midst of the burgeoning number of individuals who are dying as a direct result of using opioid this still represents a comparative drop in the bucket with 50,000 lives lost last year due to opioid is a small number however compare that to the 80,000 lives lost due to the alcohol and 500,000 lives lost due to cigarettes the leading cause of death people with addictive dizzies of recovery is a smokingrelated illness so the major issue is tobacco the second most significant remains alcohol. The Media Attention to the Opioid Crisis is waterfall to abri attention to addictive disease but remember there are 3747 per day crashing and the media is focused on a car crash. We need every chance we get were also paying attention to the 747 full of people and we dont just look at the car crash. Coming back to the 50,000 lives lost due to opioid lets figure out where th
House, an International Organization with a mission to provide sober living environments for people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. This is one hour and 10 minutes. Good morning again, everyone. 20 11 20. 11 00 so we will go ahead and get started. Taylor and irtis am a person in longterm recovery. It means i have not used alcohol or any other drug in almost 15 years now. [cheers and applause] isase understand that strictly by gods grace and receipt. Like marty walker, i take no credit whatsoever for all the good things god is doing in my life today. Is what myular panel passion is. My life at this moment is dedicated to what we call reentry. In other words, i am dedicated to helping men and women transition from a cursorys and in a successful manner, such that they never, ever go back to prison. Is. Is where my heart and by gods grace and mercy again, that is what i get paid to do today. Imagine that. Over three quarters of the oxford house population has done some jail or
My watch says 11 20, so were going to get started. My name is curtis taylor, a person in longterm recovery. What that means for me is that i have not used alcohol or any other drug in almost 15 years now. [applause] mr. Taylor preeze understand that is strictly by gods grace and mercy. Like marty walker, i take no credit whatsoever for all the good things that god is doing in my life today. This particular panel is what my passion is. Im helping men and women transition in a successful manner such that they never, ever go back to prison. Thats where my heart is. And actually by gods grace and mercy again, thats what i get paid to do today, imagine that. So over three quarters of the oxford house population has done some jail or prison time. How many people in here have been to jail or prison . Wow. Only the senators aide has not. Im not going to say that. Thank you for stopping me, lord. In america today, approximately 60 of those in jail and or prison are addicted to alcohol or some o
Epidemic, hosted by the oxford house, this is about an hour and 15 minutes. Back in 1971, this postage stamp came out. This is a path we have been down before. The whole question about drug abuse and issues that resolve around opioids. Today were going through the Opioid Crisis, facts and experiences, but what we need to remember, one of the keys to remember is that in the midst of this Opioid Crisis, in the midst of the numbers of individuals who are dying as a direct result of their use of opioids, we have to keep in mind that this still represents a comparative drop in the bucket. 50,000 lives lost last year due to opioids, no small number. However, we have to compare that to the 80,000 lives lost due to alcohol and the 500,000 lives lost due to cigarette smoking. Remember, the number one leading cause of death in people with addictive disease and recovery is smoking related illness. So the major issue for us to deal with remains tobacco. The second most significant issue for us to