you can't not volunteer for various opportunities and put your hat in theca ring. you have to put yourself in the game every single time. >> thank you. [applause] >> i saw a hand raised over here. >> hi. i am a middle school teacher, and when i was in middle school, we read really boring stuff. and so i'm trying to not have my students read really boring stuff and so -- i have them reading some of your work and they're really -- really impacted by it. i actually invited one of my students here but she didn't come unfortunately. [laughter] middle schoolers so unreliable. [laughter] i'm wondering what advice i couldac give to them to you the writer specifically. [laughter] >> i think the most important thing you can tell young writers is what i told myself which is to take yourself seriously as a writer. when i was 15, 1, 4, 7 i took my little self seriously. i really did. i was just like i'm going to be a writer and my parents were like no lawyer, doctor, flrnlg. you needs an actual job while you do your little writing thing. ha-ha-ha -- [laughter] and the the reali

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we in the association got in theca. rar and cures act, got extra billion dollars spent on opioid treatment. the first half of that was already distributed. we hope and expect the second half will come through and at the end of this year, funding measure. whatever that ends up looking like. we're very much counting on that. in the last one the measure which the funding was distributed to states didn't coral rate to the rate of the opioid epidemic, the intensity and severity of the opioid epidemic in that state. nor did to go to the recently-passed cara bill. i hope when we move forward on this, you are in a position to structure the grant process for the second half billion, in such a way that it more accurately addresses the high-impact states and that it better connects to the cara bill. i think you can probably do that in the terms of the grant application request that you structure from samhsa. i want to hear from you where you plan to go with that? because the high-impact states kind of got, not treated so well. >>