 Life is good all this month at Appalachian Wireless. Get the LG G5 for just one penny with sign up or renewal of a two year service agreement. That's almost $100 off the regular price. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. The drug epidemic in our region continues to grow and so do the efforts to combat the issue. As was evident this evening where a community drug form was held and hosted by Attorney General Andy Beshear who says there's no greater single threat to Kentucky than the drug epidemic. And when people who battle addiction begin to recover so does everyone around them. When you get people through recovery and when you send them through those parenting classes, when you teach those job skills, you're right, you rebuild lives, you rebuild families. You create healthier families. You can solve so many of the issues that are out there just by focusing on that root cause. And I gotta tell you, I've seen a lot of people go through recovery, go back home and give that two year old son or daughter the father or mother that they haven't had yet. You wanna talk about a miracle right there? It certainly is to that child. This evening's discussion panel included everyone from local leaders to survivors of addiction who were there sharing their experience and message of hope in recovery. I've seen some extraordinary stories in my life of people that I know that have gotten into recovery and things that they've done and gone on to do with their lives that are very inspiring to me. And it is true, when one person recovers, yes, the family begins to recover because the whole unit is sick, I believe, with addiction, with a disease of addiction, and it is a family illness, it's a community illness. With the shared knowledge, we get the greater understanding of the problem. You know, there's things that I can offer to the doctors that I can offer to the policemen or the doctors can as well that each individual part fits together and kind of put the whole puzzle in place. That's, I said, I mean, I don't understand the medical need for the MATs the same as they don't understand the importance of abstinence to my program. I'd carry a message that an addict can recover, that we can move past the stigma and the taboos and there is hope of rehabilitation. Reporting from Prestonsburg for EKB News, I'm Shawn Allen.