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ABOUT:
- Dr. John Kelly, Director of the Harvard Institute on Recovery: Leading researcher on recovery and very good at explaining the disease and its impact.
- Jan Brown (Executive Director of GRI): Jan has worked with many families and can speak to all the signs, the reactions, the challenges and the hope for recovery and how communities can support people in early recovery. She is also in long term recovery from opioid use, a former West Pointer and the first African American to lead a national recovery organization.
- Brantley Gilbert (Country Musician): Brantley spoke about his recovery from addiction and his involvement in a song that will benefit the Global Recovery Initiatives Foundation.