Afternoon, i am a person and longterm recovery. I hail from the great state of hawaii. [applause] oxford house is alive and well and strong on the island of oahu. Ive been with oxford house since 1990 through 1992 and employed since 1993. We would like to welcome our panelists. From oxfordh dan house, state coordinator from oklahoma. Taylor, oxford house alumni from North Carolina. Michael, oxford house alumni, outreach in florida. Jason wilson, oxford house resident and reentry coordinator, North Carolina. Jesse. What did i say . Jesse. Cleveland, oxford house alumni. [applause] over three quarters of oxford house population has done some jail or prison time. In america today, approximately 60 of those in jail or prisons are addicted to alcohol or drugs. Each year, thousands of those incarcerated reenter society. One year ofhin reentry, about half of those individuals will commit another crime and head to conviction and reentry into the into incarceration. The expense of those who ent
It is no small task to be up here. We would like to welcome our panelists. Starting with dan from oxford house, state coordinator from oklahoma. [applause] Curtis Taylor, oxford house alumni from North Carolina. Michael, oxford house alumni, outreach in florida. [applause] jason wilson, oxford house resident and reentry coordinator, North Carolina. Jesse. What did i say . Jesse. And ann cleveland, oxford house alumni. [applause] over three quarters of oxford house population has done some jail or prison time. In america today, approximately 60 of those in jail or prisons are addicted to alcohol or drugs. Each year, thousands of those incarcerated reenter society. However, within one year of reentry, about half of those individuals will commit another crime and head to conviction and reentry into incarceration. The experience of those who enter oxford house following incarceration is usually longterm recovery in crime free recovery and crime free behavior. In some states, oxford house h
Ago, which specifically mentions oxford house as a good thing and as a way for the future. With that, i call on john kelly to come share with us his knowledge so we can learn more about the disease we have in the road to recovery. [applause] this modern technology stuff jackson is good at adapting. [cheers and applause] we now have coasttocoast operation. Ricky is in the state of washington. [cheers and applause] speaker from massachusetts. We love you, ricky. [laughing] dont make ricky nervous. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] just to show you how we rebound, here we are. [applause] thank you. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Delighted to be here. Im one of those phd some new england. I apologize upfront. But im so dependent on powerpoint. I cant speak, i cant even talk without powerpoint. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] all right. Lets start over. Im delighted to be here with you all. I was getting worr
And shower shoes, theyre lucky if there have their roots in our residents, through the chapters kick into a fund to provide them their basic needs. If not, the house does that. A lot of times they dont even have the ability we get them in id, social and the food stamp card and prepare them for their Health Interview which will we give them a couple weeks in the house. How that happens is we have a houses that are chartered for around 12 men in there is room in there for a few extra and in that moment they can use some of those beds to keep guys moving because the house is viable. Its chartered for one number and they run that number but theres a few beds within the number that they can get people in. We work on, again, the eye dedication, food, clothes, educating them about what they are involved in and reassurance because we dont want them to admit it but we are scared. We get out, get out to the house and i see it all the time that the committee that first house and they dont want to
What to do, should we do it, we are not stopping, we are doing things all the time but at the start of a new administration there is a bit of a cycle based on change of administration, it is really great to take a fresh look at the crisis, the drug problem and what other major things we can do to address the problem so looking forward to the final report of the commission coming out in late october november, flowing the best ideas into the National Drug control strategy and try the most effective drug policies we can to help citizens across the country. [applause] let me say a word about interdiction and supply side. There is no Silver Bullet to this drug problem in this country, not one thing you can do and the problems go away, we need to do everything we can and do it better. On the supply side we need to restrict the ability of these dangerous drugs coming into the country. I have been to the southwest border. I got a chance when i saw the largest thing you put in the country, i wa