بیل: جزیره قشم به نظر مکان ایده آلی برای برگزاری کنفرانس های بین المللی است

Sep 10,2020

Dear Hossein,  

Your latest communication brings wonderful news.  Congratulations on this latest progress toward establishing an international center for the study of addiction recovery. Qeshm island sounds like an ideal setting for international conferences. I look forward to hearing more about this as your plans proceed and will do what I can to support your efforts on this project. I recently was diagnosed with a health condition that requires prevents any travel (in the U.S. or beyond) due to the necessity of regular treatment and that may preclude or limit my availability, but I will do what I can within the limits it imposes on me. I think I can be most helpful in assistance with the design of any proposed curricula and in helping connect you with various international experts in the addictions area. My present health constraints impose limits, but I still will do what I can to support you in this noble vision.

In a recent online board meeting of Harvard University’s Recovery Research Institute, we discussed the potential of creating a network of research scientists interested in the study of addiction recovery. If such a network were formed, it would be important to have Congress 60 included early on within its membership. Relationships formed within that network could be very beneficial to the growth of your planned university center.  

Thank you for the paper on D. Sap, which I read with great interest. I look forward to further studies that explore its potential as a preventative and curative agent.

Beyond my new personal health challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread in the U.S., with nearly every issue related to it now highly politicized.  Even wearing or not wearing a mask has become a symbol of one’s political beliefs. It is a travesty to see political leaders not modeling appropriate protections and continuing to fail to lead to bring this pandemic under control.  Here in Florida, more than half the people are now wearing masks and practicing appropriate social distancing, while others completely ignore such practices and by doing so help spread the virus. Some hope all this inflammatory rhetoric and divisiveness will ease after the Presidential elections but I am not expecting improvement in the near future.

Please tell me more about your latest building project and send pictures as it develops.

I check the COVID-19 case numbers for Iran every day and offer prayer for your health and safety and the health and safety of your family and all members of Congress 60.  

Friends and Brothers Forever,

Bill

  مترجم: احسان رنجبر