Like many of you reading this right now, drug abuse has directly impacted my family and my life. Losing my oldest brother at 41 years young did not make a headline in the news, but did define a period of loss for my family.

The recent White House commission stated that each and every day, 142 people die from opioid overdoses, approximately “equal to September 11th every three weeks.” Roughly 100 million Americans deal with chronic pain.