TUESDAY TALKS
A Community Speaker Series Featuring Some of Our Neighborhood’s Most Fascinating People
Most Months at the Cleveland Park Library
Our Next Talk:
Tuesday Sept 16
NEW START TIME: 6:45PM
SEPTEMBER 16
6:15 Book Signing
6:45 Talk begins
Patricia Roos
Committed Academic, Passionate Educator, Advocate for Social Equality, Author, & Cleveland Park neighbor
From Grief to Action: Rethinking Addiction, Stigma, and Policy
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Free and in person. Note New Start time: 6:45 PM
Space limited - remember to register
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This event is for anyone who cares about mental health, public health, or simply how we support each other through crisis. Read the full description here.
TUESDAY TALKS AT THE CLEVELAND PARK LIBRARY
OUR SPONSORS
Dr. Patricia Roos,
Rutgers University
From Grief to Action: Rethinking Addiction, Stigma, and Policy
When Rutgers sociology professor Patricia Roos lost her 25-year-old son Alex to a heroin overdose, she began a journey to understand what happened to her family. But she also examined our broken policy approaches to addiction.
In this moving and thought-provoking talk, she draws on her memoir, Surviving Alex: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction.
Roos explores the deeper systemic forces—stigma, inequality, and failed public policy—that shape the overdose crisis. In the past year drug overdoses claimed the lives of more than 80,000 Americans. More broadly, 27 million Americans currently suffer from drug use disorder, and another 29 million from alcohol use disorder.
Weaving together personal experience and sociological insight, she offers a powerful call for compassion, community, and reform to address the addiction crisis. (patroos.com)
The talk will be followed by DC. Dept. of Behavioral Health staff on overdose prevention. Free Naloxone available.
