Good evening, everybody. Wind it down the week. Yes. We have persevered. We might not have been

thriving. We are at least surviving, although the goal is thriving. And that is something I've been

talking to a lot of people about in my life, but my clinical practice especially. We're using that

word a lot because I think, you know, coming out of the difficult time we've just come out of, well, not come out of, but still they're in. People are just trying to survive.

They're trying to just get by, you know, I get my bills paid. How's my mental health in general?

But the goal is actually to thrive. I don't want people to just be doing good or well enough, right?

Like, there's got to be more than that. So we'll keep talking about that. But let that just be a word that you are kind of workshopping in your mind.

Am I thriving or am I just surviving?

And is there anything I can do to push forward and start to thrive or maybe not?

And I just need to be where I am.

But it's the question we're going to keep posing.

Love news like this, Ohio. I didn't think it'd be

Ohio to first to do this, although not surprised when I heard Oregon decriminalized all drugs,

which is great, right? We're not just throwing people in jail for drug use and possession.

We're actually saying, hey, do they have a problem? So let's get them help. Ohio has the first,

has the first harm reduction vending machine. Harm reduction is a way to go.

Absidence is not an appropriate goal for everyone and not everyone wants that. Some people want to

continue to drink or use drugs or have unprotected sex, but they just want to take care of themselves

to a certain extent. And that's okay. Adults have to make adult decisions, right? The goal isn't

everyone who

struggles at times with these things. We should just remove them from their lives. So they've set up a

vending machine that helps promote safer sex, safer smoking, an actual safer injection of drugs,

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