The STOP Pain Act, Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), and Addiction Recovery in Hawai‘i; New play TAG Casting Call; Relocating Marine Corps Air Station Futenma; Hapa Trail Walk
The STOP Pain Act, Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), and Addiction Recovery in Hawaii: Dr. Scott Miscovich
Just a few days ago, Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. It would create a comprehensive, coordinated, and balanced strategy for both education to prevent drug addictions and promotion of effective treatment and recovery. Among its provisions is the use of naloxone, an opioid response inhibitor, resources for quick identification and evidence-based treatment of inmates incarcerated for drug use and the launch of nationwide evidence based heroin and opioid treatment and intervention program consistent with best practices. All good news for Dr. Scott Miscovich.
Intro Music: The Dust of Long Dead Stars by The Jayhawks
Outro Music: Optimistic Life by Premium Trax
New play TAG Casting Call: Chelsi Johnston
Adolescence is a puzzle for all concerned, and young lives can get derailed, even in the best of families. Chelsi Johnston has written a script for a short film that look at a local family whose 18-year old daughter whose life is taking a self-destructive path that no one around her seems able to understand. She’s casting her movie now; it’s her MFA thesis project at UCLA, and she’s with us this morning.
Intro Music: Casting Call by Overwhelmed
Outro Music: Cake by the Ocean by Jake Weber
Relocating Marine Corps Air Station Futenma: John Toguchi
In Japan, there is deep opposition to the presence of US marine bases and to the relocation of some marines to a new base in Okinawa under the Status of Forces Agreement. Over the past three years, rancor over the arrangement has grown amid charges of the storing of Agent Orange and the admitted murder of a woman in Okinawa by a former marine earlier this year. There have been rallies and protests, officials elected who oppose the Japanese government’s support for the relocation and in a poll of Okinawan residents last month; almost eighty four percent said they opposed the relocation. The Worldwide Uchinanchu Business Association says there is more to the story and is one of the sponsors of an East West Center forum on the relocation, its president John Toguchi’s with us this morning.
Intro Music: St.Ides by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Outro Music: Relocation - Original Mix by Feed Me
Hapa Trail Walk: Ted Bright
Koloa, Kauai, is a plantation community that cherishes its history… and evidence of that history is all around… The Koloa Community Association is sponsoring a walk this weekend along the Hapa Road Trail that should reveal how much has changed over the past century -- and what needs to stay the same. Ted Bright is member of the Koloa Community Association.
Intro Music: Satellite by Dave Matthews Band
Outro Music: Sun Set Trail by Alex Bollard
