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Day reflects on an interview with ONDCP Director Gil Kerilkowske and the public health approach his agency is taking and how it relates to Face It TOGETHER, America, etc. 

If you have not done so already, read Face It TOGETHER's White Paper & learn what the Affordable Care Act means for addiction. 

integrating behavioral health with primary care services is a great idea whose time has come and is long overdue.

We need a new word to describe addiction as a treatable, chronic disease. What we are using right now - substance use disorder, substance abuse, alcoholic, etc. are simply the "N" words of this disease. Say it right! 

We often times forget that addiction doesn't just affect the person suffering from the disease, but everyone around him and her. Just like an other chronic disease, one who suffers from addiction cannot fight the disease alone. Recovery from this chronic disease is not unlike recovery from any other life-threatening chronic disease. Friends and family members must understand the disease too and know how to help talk about it, treat it and find the road to reovery.