Aug 9, 2018
Dear Hossein,
Thank you for the photos from your holidays. Were all the barrels in the photos filled with apple juice? That must have been quite a harvest of apples.
I just received communication that Alireza Noroozi will be meeting with you this Sunday to review the draft paper. I hope you will be able to help correct the paper to your satisfaction. It will be good to have the DST protocol described in detail as well as other ways TO is being used in Iran. Be sure to let me know what you think of the paper Alireza will be revising after your meeting. I tried to help polish the language in the first draft but could not properly evaluate the technical content. I am please you will be involved in this.
I have been working recently on blogs that highlight recovery advocacy activities in other countries (e.g., Japan, the Philippines) and summarizing some recent recovery research. I don’t seem to have the intellectual power or physical energy to take on full articles at this point, but I still enjoy writing these very short pieces. My plan is to continue my blog at least through the end of this year and then re-evaluate its future. Another project I am working on here is promoting the integration of addiction treatment and primary healthcare. They now exist in the U.S. as two very different systems and I want to see improved responses by the medical community to addiction and do a better job in addiction treatment assessing and treatment a broad spectrum of health issues, includingpromoting smoking cessation—as you are doing so well in Congress 60.
Rita and I are planning a short trip at the end of this month to visit family in Illinois. We will get to spend time with our daughter and her husband and visit my sisters as well as many friends we have not seen in some time. It will take two full days of driving to get there, but we seem to enjoy the drives more than flying these days. Early September should be a pretty time of year to make the drive north and back.
Please continue to extend my warm regards to your family and all members of Congress 60. I was pleased to hear Shani will be awarded a new camera in honor of her past work.
Friends and Brothers Forever,
Bill