Organize and Mobilize

Now that this has happened, what am I going to do about me?

Parents from 33 states sat down for two days of brainstorming ways to change the status quo of adolescent treatment and recovery. In respect to the lives damaged and lost to substance use addiction these parents choked back tears and finished their work today. Looking back at their bewildered minds in the days of trying to find help for their sons and daughters the parents diligently recalled the good, the bad, and the ugly. Looking but not staring allowed the parents to focus on ideas. The results were fueled by mercy not bitterness. Their sons and daughters have died or outgrown adolescents so no change in policy or attitude will affect their families. But it's not for themselves that they go to the dark places. It's for others--- Those who today may not see what's coming at them like a freight train.

Gigantic goodness grows from the tiniest seeds of hope. A visible, vocal national movement is growing in fertile soil. It has a chance because the seed is watered by the tears of loving parents pained by the produce of ambivalence which had it's start in an attitude of resentment. Americans care but the body count has gone unreported. We're killing our young people at rates that should trigger riots in the streets.

In a day when the United States Government is deciding which businesses are "too big to fail", I believe Americans are going to decide addiction treatment and recovery is too important to fail. Misguided national sentiment toward addiction is approaching the end.

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