You\'ve heard the horror Stories about drug addiction.
This is the Face of addiction..
So much humanity.
So much joy and redemption.
So much heartache and loss.
That\'s how important it is for you to hear what they have to say.
What\'s more, two of the people featured here have died since giving their interview.
The city councilman whose perspective finally changed after years of family turmoil.
The man who found a reason for Recovery in his daughter\'s letter to Santa.
There\'s the woman whose husband succumbed to an overdose even though she was sure he\'d finally beaten it.
The Face of Addiction tells the Stories of twelve people he met when he first began "getting close" to the things that matter in his community.
Joshua Lawson has worked as an organizer, pastor, and ally to people who use drugs in central Appalachia for the past three years.
They are human beings whose lives are filled with meaning and potential.
Our sons and daughters aren\'t "junkies" who deserve to be written off by society.
Substance use disorder may be a vague abstraction to most of us, but our friends and family are not.
Your eyes glaze over with half-hearted interest when you see the stats surrounding the "opioid crisis." You know you should care that 130 people are dying of accidental overdose every day in America, yet you just can\'t seem to muster the compassion.
You\'ve heard the horror Stories about drug addiction
