Op-Ed By Board Members Judy Dodge & Greta Mayer
Read below an excerpt from OneOhio Recovery Foundation board members Judy Dodge and Greta Mayer's recent op-ed in the Dayton Daily News. You can read the full op-ed (here).
“As professionals who serve in local government, we know firsthand the devastation of the drug overdose epidemic upon the communities where we all live and work every day.
Few can say it hasn’t touched them personally. When you take into account the way the epidemic has burdened local communities’ finances and their workforce to provide essential services, no one in Ohio has been spared.
What’s important to recognize is how blind addiction is to the characteristics we often use to describe — and separate — ourselves. Urban or rural? Race? Income? Age? Faith tradition? Political party affiliation? None of these things matter to the epidemic. We both serve communities of all kinds, with people of all kinds, and we have seen addiction’s unforgivingly broad sweep hit them all. Lives have been lost, communities have grieved, families have been torn apart, children have had to be relocated to other caregivers — and these are just a few of the tragedies we have seen.”
