Addiction Around the World
by Lisa Frederiksen
I’ll be returning home tomorrow evening from an amazing week in Mexico City working with the other partners of GARNET (Global Addiction Recovery Network). We collaborate with groups, treatment centers and governments to develop culturally sensitive programs they can then implement and in turn use to help families, addicts/alcoholics, communities and governments grapple with all aspects of the family disease of addiction.
This was my first effort in Mexico with GARNET, and I was truly honored to be working with our conterparts there. Addiction and its impacts on families and communities is universal. How we prevent and treat it can be greatly advanced by inter-cultural collaboration. We have so much we can learn from each other.
