I'm Thank you. Good day, listeners, and welcome to Don't Invide the Kool-Aid.

I'm Kim Kennedy. I'm your host for today's program.

And as always, we are very glad that you're with us. And we are delighted to be a part

of the America Out Loud Radio Network. We love being a part of this amazing network. And I'm glad to

have listeners like you joining in today. Today, we're going to take on a topic about the

epidemic of addiction in America.

It comes in many forms, but our focus is on abuse, substance abuse.

Most of us know somebody in our lives who deals with that.

You know, if we can be very honest with one another, we know how that goes.

We know people, and we realize that in honest with one another, we know how that goes. We know people.

And we realize that in addiction, it's not just the person suffering from the addiction,

but it's also the friends and family members who care, who suffer along with these people.

And I wanted to first, Terry, take a look at the Sweatshirts of Hope newsletter of May.

And we're going to tell you later how to sign up for it because you should and you'll want to when we get done this program.

But what sweatshirts of Hope does, it's linking hope for life with first responders, non-profit organizations, churches,

and the business community.

Why?

There are faith-based, Christ-centered 501C3 nonprofit providing resources for a healthier

community.

Hope branded sweatshirts remind the person wearing the item and persons seeing that logo that there is hope in Jesus and they are loved by God no matter their past.

So I want to start by introducing Terry Durstein, who's the founder of this organization.

I think he considers me a friend most of the times when I'm not annoying him.

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