General Arthur Dean is the Chairman and CEO of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA).  Before joining CADCA, he spent 31 years in the U.S. Army, and retired as a Major General. During his time in the Army,

Leidos is a global scientific and technology company with more than 30,000 employees working actively in defense contracting, aviation, information technology and biomedical research.  But after the son of one employee died from an opioid overdose,

Growing up, Sean Hindman loved to swim, skateboard, hang out with friends and most of all, play soccer. When Sean was a teenager, he became addicted to prescription opioid painkillers, and spent the following decade in and out of rehabilitation.

Joe Namath is a former American football quarterback and Hollywood actor. He played for the New York Jets for most of his professional football career and played his final season with the Los Angeles Rams. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fam...

Roy Kearse, LCSW, CASAC is Vice President of Recovery Services and Community Partnerships at Samaritan Daytop Village, where he is leading the agency’s efforts to create a recovery-oriented system of care and assist in our broader outreach efforts.

Deirdre Rice-Reese serves as Assistant Vice President of Residential Treatment for Samaritan Daytop Village, where she oversees the veteran and upstate residential treatment programs.  Ms. Rice-Reese also coordinates outreach to community partners and ...

Dr. Robert R. Redfield MD is the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. He has been a public health leader actively engaged in clinical research and clinical...

Heather Major joined the Independence Blue Cross Foundation in 2012. In her Foundation roles, Heather is responsible for grant administration and program redesign of the Foundation’s core initiatives.  Heather is responsible for guiding the strategic v...

Dr. Stephen Loyd is a prominent Tennessee doctor who has dedicated his life to helping Tennesseans recover from addiction because he previously fought his own battle with prescription medication.  In 2001, at the end of his internal medicine residency,...

Acclaimed actor Joe Pantolaino founded “No Kidding? Me Too!” which is dedicated to removing the stigma associated with mental illness and brain disease (BD) through education and the breaking down of societal barriers.