A.R. Gurney’s play “Love Letters,” aims to foster understanding of those who have experienced addiction and the necessary conditions for successful recovery, write featured actors Martin Sheen and Melissa Fitzgerald.
The relationship at the center of A.R. Gurney’s play “Love Letters” is a complicated mix of friendship and devotion. As the protagonists reach middle age, the character of Melissa — whose life has been upended by generational substance use and depression — expresses her frustration to Andy, now a US Senator. “They say I’m dancing on the edge of an abyss,” she writes to him. “You’d better stay away, I might take you with me when I fall.
Our treatment infrastructure must include trauma-informed care and access to medications, address co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders and be culturally competent. And of course, we need to develop an ever-growing workforce of licensed addiction treatment providers to deliver services. For many more, quality, affordable treatment is out of reach.
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