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change, disparities, Obama, politics, recovery, reform, sobriety, social change, youth
Wow. I am disillusioned with much of politics but I am impressed by this speech.
This Initiative not only interests me, for so many personal and professional reasons, but hear what Obama says in this brief clip. The youth experience of turning to drugs or alcohol for so many reasons has far reaching consequences. As he mentions humbly and candidly, some of us had second, or third, or multiple chances, and some did not. Some have had our problem paths turn to end too abruptly, some ended in a quick fade of the habit, and some went on to become problem-laden or addicted.
Better programs for prevention, and reform across the various intersecting systems including the justice system are not sensitive to this and unfortunately there are a myriad of disparities based upon ethnicity, “race,” language and gender or other “statuses.”
I hope many of us in recovery will find our voices to be advocates for change in our own ways.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/02/27/nr-sot-obama-my-brothers-keeper-son.cnn.html