 Hi, everyone. I'm Ed Baker, and I am your host producer on the Addiction Recovery Channel, or ARC. ARC is a show that is devoted to raising consciousness, to enhancing people's understanding, the public's understanding, of people with addiction, their treatments, and their recoveries. The overall overarching goal is to reduce stigma, the stigma that is wrongfully attached to people with substance use disorder. And by reducing stigma, we increase compassion. The ultimate outcome is that people with substance use disorder are more likely to receive the types of treatments they need and they deserve and more likely to recover. In a nutshell, our goal is to save lives. This is going into my fourth year at CCTV. I was asked to do the show by Margaret Harrington. The thought had never crossed my mind. I had no experience doing this at all. The idea seemed like a good idea. It seemed like a timely idea. At the time, the overdose fatality in America was at a record high, which it still is. What I found over my course of producing the show is that the staff at CCTV from the very, very top out has been more than supportive, 100% supportive. You can feel it in the air. They're all in. I got the all in award one year and I thought that's really interesting. They should get the all in award. Without them, nothing like this would have been ever possible in my life. The benefit of this all is the hunger and the thirst in the community for knowledge. People want to understand what addiction is about. People don't want to see through a lens of stigma. It's not natural compassion is natural. I'll just I'll just close by saying in 2021 I received the Jack Barry award for excellence in recovery advocacy. This is a distinguished award that was presented to me by my peers. And I did some speechless about it. And a lot of what went into their decision to give me this great honor was my work with CCTV on behalf of people with substance use disorder and their recoveries. So I couldn't be more grateful. Thank you.