How to fight addiction at grassroot level – USATODAY.com.    Even a statesman was touched by the scourge of addiction.  George McGovern is on fire for solutions as he discusses a grassroots view to fighting a gripping national epidemic that took his own daughter 17 years ago.   George McGovern points out that, on the federal level, not a single government agency working in this area bears the word “recovery” in its name.  George McGovern is a former U.S. senator and Democratic nominee for president