Creating Sustainability, Disarming Trauma and Loving One Another
I recently joined BHbusiness Mastering Essential Business Operations as a convener. The plan is to recruit 15-20 peer organizations to participate in a peer provider learning community. I decided to create an all peer - or at least a 95 percent peer - learner community with meaningful programs, innovation, and plenty of ideas that may not necessarily be easy to implement. How can we disarm trauma in the midst of creating sustainable communities? We must love ourselves a little harder, love our peers just a little bit stronger and bring our adversaries closer to our hearts.
West Virginia’s Prescription Drug Abuse Problem: Intersection of Two Industries?
The line between legal and illicit, "addictive" vs. "necessary", becomes vanishingly thin when it comes to the medications prescribed in areas of the country that are being stripped of their natural resources. The mechanisms of science, medicine and our government that were once thought to protect and serve are instead leaving residents on a trail of pain, addiction, dependence and poverty produced by the intersection of two highly profitable industries. (Editor's note)
