Fighting Drug Addiction - Zvi Gluck

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] I'm often asked at what point am I gonna stop showing up at events to do speaking on this topic and the answer is when it becomes no longer necessary and regardless what the size of the crowd is or how many people are watching it on Facebook and how many will see the videos later this is an epidemic that is destroying our community and destroying our community and unfortunately the last time that I had the honor I guess we'll call it to speak in this venue we were talking about the numbers of those that have died from overdoses within the Orthodox community I mean that specific event was actually a response to close to a dud a dozen deaths within this specific community in Queens alone sadly those numbers have not gone down we're just at about a hundred and fifty deaths within the hundred and fifty deaths within the Orthodox Jewish community on a national level under the age of 35 directly relating to the opioid epidemic since January 1st 2017 when we add mental illness to that equation and we add the suicide rate it brings that total number closer to 200 now as I spoke last week and I know many people hear the same thing repetitiously and I'll just keep saying the same thing because that's all there is to say that number is not 200 too many it's not a hundred too many

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