On July 13th 2009, http://www.dadonfire.net was born. We are quickly moving towards 15,000 views in just over one year. Not bad for a busy dad fed up with the whole reality of drug addiction and the impact it has had on my family and friends. I think one reason so many Americans are blind to the horrendous impact of addiction is partly the same reason folks are blind to many other big problems. Americans are just burnt out with the magnitude of it all. I will never say we don’t care. Like any burning issue, it is the flame of caring and wanting to make a difference that keeps people listening and transforming indifference into compassion. One day the disease of addiction will be rightly recognized as a legitimate medical condition along with all of its parallel indications of mental anguish. Many addicts are afflicted with bi-polar, depression, anxiety dis-order and other conditions that are very under diagnosed. The tools and minds are there. Once the American body follows, we will have it licked. Keep listening. Keep talking. Stay on fire. http://www.dadonfire.net.
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July 13, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Joe
Great work dadonfire [-;
July 13, 2010 at 10:22 pm
peglud
Congratulations, Bill. I am a follower and fan of your informative blog that promotes advocacy on behalf of those afflicted with the disease of addiction. I reference you often, and always learn something from you regular posts. Thanks for your work, research, passion for starting the conversation and debate about addiction issues. Peggy
July 14, 2010 at 2:55 am
Ron Grover
Happy blog birthday Dad on Fire. Keep up the good work/
July 14, 2010 at 5:51 am
tinhih
Congratulations!!! Happy Birthday and stay on fire!!! I will call you this week!
🙂 Jan. ( I follow you faithfully!)
July 14, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Barbara
Happy Birthday to one of the best blogs out there! When I first started reading here I was so grateful for all the wonderful information, then I learned that there was an amazing man behind it all! You are an inspiration to me. Thank you for advocating and educating on this topic!
July 19, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Barbara Sinor
Fantastic Bill!!!
July 20, 2010 at 9:12 am
VJ
Congratulations! I too have followed your blog and have benefited greatly from the information you have provided.
We, as family members and friends of addicted loved one’s, have no support from our communities. This is because they are not educated on the disease of addiction. They get the disease model confused with poor behavior or consider substance abuse as simply a lack of morals. They believe the individual will simply grow out of the behavior.
What is needed is more “DadOnFire” who will not give up the fight to educate and therefore change a failed system.
July 30, 2010 at 6:42 am
Angie (mom)
Bill, Congratulations on your first year of “DADonFIRE” Keep up the good job and all the info you’re putting out to the public and making everyone aware of the dangers of addiction, maybe one day we will have a cure.
August 6, 2010 at 10:27 am
Monica
Thank you for carrying the fire. We have to keep fighting and believing.