Promise me, Joe, that you’ll remember Alex in your first 100 days | Opinion
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
Posted Mar 14, 2021
Patricia A. Roos is in the midst of writing a book about her son, Alex Roos Clarke, who died of an overdose. She asks that President Biden remember Alex as he develops a drug policy during his first 100 days in office. Photo of Alex courtesy Patricia Roos.
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By Patricia A. Roos
Your son and mine died the same month, May 2015. Your Beau died from cancer. My Alex died from heroin.
You have spoken poignantly of your son Hunter’s recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, so you know my pain. Your book about Beau “Promise Me Dad” comforted me in a time of great sorrow. We weren’t, aren’t, alone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 70,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2019. Since 1999, more than 760,000 have died. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of drug overdoses has spiked to more than
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WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / March 12, 2021 / The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is delighted to welcome Ambassador Adrienne S. O Neal to our Advisory Board. Ambassador O Neal had a distinguished 32-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service serving in overseas assignments in Europe, South America, and Africa. She was the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde from 2011 to 2015. O Neal also served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal and Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Other overseas diplomatic assignments have been in Mozambique, Argentina and Italy.
In Washington, her assignments included key positions in the Bureau of Human Resources, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs at State, and Deputy Press Secretary to the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). She was also State Department Diplomat-in-Residence at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 20
MEMRI is delighted to welcome Ambassador Adrienne S. O'Neal, who had a distinguished 32-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service serving in overseas assignments in Europe, South America, and Africa, to our Advisory Board.
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SADD Taps Former Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, (ONDCP), as Senior Advisor
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(SADD) is proud to announce the appointment of
The Honorable James (Jim) Carroll as Senior Advisor.
Carroll served as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) beginning in 2019 as part of a distinguished career in public service. His work shows a commitment to saving lives, as defined by ONDCP s mission, to aid those who are suffering from substance use disorder and ensure that they are provided and presented to the path of recovery, proper preventive education, and stopping the flow of substances in the U.S. Under Carroll s lead, the number of deaths due to overdose decreased for the first time in 30 years.