MEDIA ALERT: Hollywood 4WRD presents IN THE EYE OF A TRAGIC STORM: THE INTERSECTION OF HOMELESSNESS AND ADDICTION IN 2023, panel discussion with three leading experts in the field

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hollywood 4WRD:

WHAT: Hollywood 4WRD presents IN THE EYE OF A TRAGIC STORM: THE INTERSECTION OF HOMELESSNESS AND ADDICTION IN 2023, panel discussion with three leading experts in the field.

WHEN/WHERE: Tuesday, June 13 from 5:00 to 7:30 PM at the W Hotel Hollywood

WHO:
Sam Quinones: The Least of Us: True Tales of America in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth (2021) and Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic (2015)

Nicole Farley: Emergency Room Coordinator for JWCH-Wesley Health Centers – Kaiser Sunset

Dr. Brian Hurley: LA County Department of Public Health, Medical Director, Substance Use Prevention and Control; President, American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)

Moderator: Kerry Morrison, Founder of Heart Forward

BACKGROUND: Hollywood 4WRD is a coalition driven to create systemic change to effectively address homelessness in Hollywood. Its mission is to bring committed community members and organizations together to collaborate, to communicate and to forge a unified voice aimed at system change, effective policy, and coordination of resources to end homelessness in greater Hollywood. www.Hollywood4WRD.org

The discussion will address:

• Simply moving unsheltered individuals off the streets is not effective treatment for those also struggling with addiction issues.
• Treatment from meth and fentanyl addiction will largely not succeed in a community-setting.
• Part of the increase in homelessness in LA County over the last decade is due to a similar rise in meth and fentanyl addiction over that same period.
• The hopeful innovations happening within jail settings where inmates, who are finally detoxed from their addiction to meth, are offered very intentional recovery programs.

Tickets:
General admission tickets are $20 and FREE for H4WRD members. To purchase tickets, please click here, or go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-tragic-storm-the-intersection-of-homelessness-and-addiction-in-2023-tickets-628808933447

Sponsors: W Hotel Hollywood, Health Net, Kilroy Realty.