Substance Abuse Affects Everyone

Cabell County Substance Abuse Prevention Partnership director Anne McGee has an op-ed piece in the Huntington, WV, Herald-Dispatch about the costs of substance abuse and the Governor's Comprehensive Strategic Plan to Address Substance Abuse in West Virginia. The strategic plan was unveiled Nov. 16 at the Governor's Drug Summit in Charleston.

She said substance abuse cuts across simple classification.

"It is an insidious social and public health issue that crosses age, gender, economic, social, racial, cultural, and other boundaries," she writes. "With substance abuse, there is no cut-and-dried determination that a particular party is going to bear the cost: in fact we all pay for substance abuse whether we use substances or not."

To read more of McGee's article, see here.