Hazelden Betty Ford Launches Advocacy Initiative

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has launched a new "Institute for Recovery Advocacy" to smash stigma, shape public policy and educate people about the problems of addiction. The Institute for Recovery Advocacy's new website, www.hazeldenbettyford.org/advocacy, will serve as a hub to educate the public and policymakers about recovery issues and facilitate conversation among individuals in recovery from addiction and those still suffering. The Institute will focus this year on promoting solutions to the national crisis involving opioids, the class of drugs that includes heroin and prescription pain medications. Other issues of concern to the Institute include . . .