Tonight, we’ll have a chance to meet David Sheff, in person, here in Newport Beach, CA, just across the street from Morningside Recovery’s Balboa Peninsula corporate offices, speaking about his own path that led to his most recent book, ”Clean“, in which Sheff details our country’s failure to arrest the tide of addiction as it “directly relates to the belief—as persistent as it is wrong—that addiction is a moral failing,” that, instead, addiction must be understood as a disease.
Earlier this week Sheff wrote in The Huffington Post, and in The Clinton Foundation’s blog, quoting Thomas McLellan, a former Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), as asking: “What would you do if there was a sniper on your campus murdering one student a year? You wouldn’t accept it as a given. You wouldn’t rest until you caught him.” Sheff himself goes further, asking why teens may consider “pharmaceuticals as safer than street drugs”. Sheff then notes that “pills” are the #1 killer of teens… More about David Sheff and The Clinton Foundation…
