again, my name is paul malloy and i am an alcoholic. one of the things that was done this morning, we did a lot of things, god a lot of work done this morning and heard the drug's are and head of the dc government program for alcoholism and drug addiction, doctor clark, stu and others talked about the opioid crisis and added to that and curtis led a program to talked about reentry from prison because we know that 60% to 70% of folks incarcerated have a booze or drug problem and likely to be right back in prison if they go back where they came from because that is where the booze and drugs were. if they get into oxford house it increases their chances they will never go to prison again. while those were the main subjects discussed this morning, there were lots of other activities all around the convention hotel. if you will recall, each breakout session has five different panels. some of those panels like having fun in an oxford house were loud, boisterous and full of people outside of this world, living there. but randy and others who t

i like what paul malloy said this morning. one thing that's really important about organizations, and oxford house is one of those important organizations, is you have to have a story. there has to be a saga. there has to be a leader, and everybody has to repeat that story over and over again, because that's how you build the momentum. i think oxford house is one of those great organizations. i have to say what oxford house has done in north carolina to respond to needs in our state. we have homes for women and children, homes for re-entry, homes for veterans. our newest homes are recovery homes on college campuses and we are looking forward to oxford house being -- continuing to be part of the solution on the opioid crisis, and it is an issue with medication and oxford house -- and i think you all are working on it. i know your position is that the house decides for itself what the state needs to do or know or your referring agencies, which houses can accept somebody like that, which ones can't, and what are you doing to impr

. >> i like what paul malloy said.>> that's what's important about organizations and what's important about all these is you have to have a particular style and you have to be a leader and everybody has to repeat that story over and over again. that's how you go and oscar is one of those great organizations. >> you know what, oscar has his next volunteer, many of them from the state, we have also women and children, all the entities and so. >> on college, they are recovery and in our campuses and we are looking for our own and we continue to be part of the solution. >> and it is an issue with our vocation and oxford house and i thank you all for working on it, i know he has his position that is what the state needs to do or the agencies which helps and it can accept some of those that help us, if they can't, whatever areyou doing to improve . >> be watching for those, we had a number of those last year and you mentioned the infectious disease, just last week it was increasing our syphilis and inflations where they had had to have it completely eradicated but we found that needle shari