A letter on Aug. 15 stated that there were 38 million opioid pills prescribed in Port Angeles, Sequim and Forks in the last six years.
At the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s medication-assisted treatment facility meeting, presentations were given by representatives from Olympic Medical Center and the tribal medical director.
At no time did I hear even a hint of a regret, remorse or a willingness to accept responsibility from these organizations creating and perpetuating this opioid epidemic by issuing these prescriptions.
What they owe the community is an apology.
Now this same medical community is saying trust us.
They are now addiction specialists and they can solve this crisis they created by issuing a different prescription.
This will not work.
Doesn’t the name Healing Campus with wraparound services make you feel kind of warm and fuzzy inside?
Greed is one of the seven deadly sins.
No matter how you dress it up, disguise it or just plain mislead others about what your true long-term plan actually is, greed is still greed.
There are hundreds of thousands of people in our country who have successfully arrested and recovered from their disease of narcotic addiction.
They’ve achieved this wonderful success through 100 percent abstinence from any and all mind-altering chemicals.
Don’t fall for half-truths.
We do not need, nor do we want, this MAT campus in Sequim.
Bill Walsh,
Sequim