Addiction is a disease and a motivational disturbance that requires professional clinical management rather than relying on parental instincts.

“It will pull you in with it because that's how it works. That's how it gets its way. It's a motivational disturbance and it brings all the positive things in in life to serve the broken motivation”

California's current laws and policies actively hinder the ability of families to secure necessary help for loved ones struggling with addiction.

“Not only does the state not allow for it, Drew, I think the state actively works to keep people addicted and homeless and miserable.”

The current approach to managing opioid addiction, which includes restricting prescription access without providing alternative treatments like medical cannabis, has inadvertently worsened the crisis

“the reaction then was to stop prescribing but when you start prescribing to someone who is dependent on an opiate they don't unless you provide them with something else like medical cannabis they are in withdrawal and so they go and get an opiate and if you're not prescribing it they go and get it f”