Amudim Awareness Event May 1 2017 David Mandel Part 5 of 5

David Mandel with oh hell and we'd like to have a brief question and answer if people have questions let me take a moment to summarize the evening and about what Ikey said the goal of an evening like this is to help one individual one person who's here this evening one family who's here this evening walk out learning information feeling that they have done the right thing learning how to go and respond to an individual a family member a next-door neighbor themselves who might need help I had a mentor who often said that life's most difficult questions have the simplest answers so many people travel literally all over the world and look for answers complex answers to complex questions and I key said something this evening that I believe is very important and very true he was in the if I may say the deepest time the flows of addiction in a very bad place in life and he called up one of his sponsors one of the people that he was speaking with that had given him support on November 25 2007 and this person David it safe said to him I'm not going to see you unless you agree to enter rehab and so I key called his sponsor a friend and he said what do I do and the person said to him just go forward just go forward relatively easy words to say not complex not sophisticated not in search of anything just go forward the other message I take for Mikey that everyone here should hear very strongly we talked about the stigma and shame he said a middle-class family a normal family a good family or religious family and yet it can happen to anyone in the community it's not that family over there but wouldn't he spoke about not losing the hero but wouldn't he spoke about taking the individual responsibility and the communal responsibility to help individuals dr. Blumenthal in his comments on risk factors echoed similar words about the risk factors of the individual and at the same time a community providing supports belonging to a community is a strong antidote to addiction war dr. Blumenthal's words communal responsibility to prevent and to support not to judge dr. Perlman talked about the threefold increase in the rate of addiction of the past ten years that addiction is a failed attempt at pain relief a pain relief addicts don't want to be addicts they suffer living may enjoy the moment but they don't want to be addicts