The Addict's Mom 9/10/16 Dwight Hall at Yale

Lights of Hope Agenda was a talk about access, administering, and success of the use of Narcan,  the drug used to combat overdose death in heroin addiction. A pharmacist spoke on the types of delivery systems of the drug. A local community activist spoke about access and availability of the drug. A mother and sister spoke about twice using Narcan to reverse an overdose on their son/brother. Rosa Delauro, the area's congresswoman, listened and spoke about measures the US congress is considering to help this public health crisis. Charlie and Duncan performed a musical interlude by performing the Johnny Cash song "Hurt". Duncan strummed an acoustic guitar, while Charlie sang. The song, with lyrics pertinent to the night's subject matter, were passionately delivered by Charlie. He paced while singing as if to keep the "demon" on the ropes, and boomed the final refrain as if to wake the nodding in far off galaxies. Sometimes music just crystallizes a point that needs to be continually made.