Robert Kent argues that Purdue Pharma settlement money should be treated differently from other opioid funds. He calls for affected families to review spending decisions and urges governments to direct the money toward families carrying the trauma, loss, and generational consequences of the opioid epidemic.

William Stauffer argues that addiction care systems are becoming increasingly isolated from the people doing the work. He examines broken feedback loops, flawed metrics, shrinking treatment capacity, and the essential role of authentic face-to-face dialogue in long-term recovery outcomes.

A critique of addiction policy that prioritizes crisis response over sustained recovery.