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Harris Wittels Loss To Heroin

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Harris Lee Wittels died on February 19, 2015 of a heroin overdose alone in his Los Angeles home. He was 30 years young.
He was my son. He was the world’s comedian. My son grew up in an affluent, white suburban neighborhood. He was a “nice Jewish boy.” His dad is a physician and I am a retired teacher. My son would never, ever take that drug called heroin! These kinds of kids don’t do such a thing! I am sharing this story because I want other families to hopefully know what we did not know.

The Faulty Logic Of The War On Drugs

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This epidemic of opioid addiction and death that we are living in is not the result of the use of opioids per se, but by society’s response to this use. What the “War on Drugs” has accomplished has been to turn what is a chronic but treatable, manageable, disease into an epidemic of addiction and death.

What It Feels Like To Have An Opioid Addiction

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We are in the midst of an epidemic of opioid addiction and death. Almost everyone knows someone living an opioid addiction or who has died from one. And they all have the same question: why can’t we, didn’t we, stop?

Thank You

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Hello All Broken No More would like to thank everyone who participated in the Giving Tuesday Event held on 11/29/2016. We really appreciate your support. Your generous donation will go a long way in helping individuals who have lost a loved one due to substance use and to end the current failed war on drugs. […]

BNM/GRASP Retreat 2016

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Save the Date!
When: October 13th to 16th, 2016
Where: Hyatt Regency Atlanta Perimeter at Villa Christina – Atlanta, Georgia

Top U.S. Drug Official Steers New Direction on Drug War on 60 Minutes

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On Sunday, December 13, 2015, the new Director of National Drug Control Policy (he does not wish to be called “Drug Czar”), Michael Botticelli, was interviewed by Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes. The topic: radically changing the “War on Drugs” from the zero-tolerance, hard-line approach – where citizens with addiction problems have been locked up (often times for incredibly lengthy sentences) – to that of treatment, compassion and understanding.