Have you gotten your tickets for Recovery Vermont's Leadership Conference on April 4th yet? The conference's theme is: "It Takes a Village: New Approaches to Vermont's Addiction Epidemic."
Hear from world-renowned journalists, authors, and speakers, including NY Times bestselling authors Johann Hari and Sam Quinones and Vermont Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale. Additionally, the Tatro family and I will share about Jenna's Promise, our partners, and our groundbreaking recovery village model.
Johann Hari is a British writer whose first book, Chasing the Scream: the First and Last Days of the War on Drugs was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film 'The United States Vs Billie Holiday,' for which Johann was also an Executive Producer. Chasing the Scream has also been adapted into a separate eight-part documentary series presented by Samuel L. Jackson to be released this year. His second book, Lost Connections: Uncovering The Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions was described by the British Journal of General Practice as "one of the most important texts of recent years" and shortlisted for an award by the British Medical Association. Johann's TED talks 'Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong' and 'This Could Be Why You Are Depressed or Anxious' have been viewed more than 80 million times. Johann has written over the past decade for some of the world's leading newspapers and magazines and he was twice named 'National Newspaper Journalist of the Year' by Amnesty International. Johann's latest book, 'Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention' was published in January 2022 and quickly became a bestseller.
Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and has been a reporter for 35years including ten years at the L.A. Times and ten years as a freelance writer residing in Mexico. Sam has written on many topics including immigration, gangs, drug trafficking, and the border. He is also the author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, including Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic and most recently, The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth. Dreamland won a National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015. It was also selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by Amazon.com, the Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Seattle Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Entertainment Weekly, Audible, and in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Business. In2019, Dreamland was selected as one the Best 10 True-Crime Books of all time based on lists, surveys, and ratings of more than 90 million http://Goodread.com readers. Also in 2019, http://Slate.com selected Dreamland as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the last 25 years. In 2021, GQ Magazine selected Dreamland as one of the "50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century." The Least of Us, published in October 2021, is following in Dreamland's footsteps and garnering widespread acclaim.
In-person tickets are sold out, but online tickets are available for just $10, which will go toward Recovery Vermont's Recovery Coach Academy Scholarship Fund. Register for yours today! https://recoveryvermont.org/leadership-conference/
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