 As a parent, I recognize that the overdose crisis that issues surrounding mental health are things that my children will be faced with at some point in their lives. My wife and I have this conversation often about how do we continue to build an environment of trust and honesty, and I think empathy goes a long way. So much of the moral judgment comes from a lack of understanding, and I do think that's where we have an opportunity to progress the conversation forward, and make it more of a healthy conversation, more of one where we're open to listening, we're emotionally available. Oftentimes we get caught up in saying, I have to say, just the right thing, I need to provide the perfect answers. When really we need to take a step back and recognize that just being there, just opening the conversation, provides the honest space that gives our young people a chance to trust us. Sometimes we sell young people short, and thinking that they're not ready to have that conversation, I think young people are, and I think they're yearning for it. Conversations like that, difficult conversations, are where we often grow the most. It's continually providing examples to our kids, letting them know things came up in our life when I was young. This happened to me, here's one of my experiences, and I've recognized that even in my young kids, when I draw on past experiences or say something that happened, kids are all ears, and they want to hear about that, and so I think it starts at a young age to recognize maybe mom and dad are okay with having a tough conversation and won't think I'm crazy or being a bad kid if I tell them about something that happened. We want to talk to kids in our lives about drugs, but we don't always know how. If we shift our role into asking questions and truly listening without judgment, it can go a long way. Keep these conversations going. We are all in this together.