Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope everyone has a bless and safe day surrounded with family and friends.

Here’s the Stanford report about alcohol

It's horrible how society portrays addicts as losers. They are viewed as people who choose to abandon their family and kids just to go on the streets to get high. Addiction is a disease that needs treatment and should be viewed that way. Think of addiction as something like cancer. Can your cancer get better without help? I don't think so. Even if people want to get better, not everybody can afford treatment. Counseling and detox cost money, which many people don't have, especially people who are poor and homeless. And you do have to realize, people who turned to drugs often did it to cope with their problems that they thought were out of their control, which THEN turns into an addiction. Their problem may be mental illness, huge debt, rape, abuse at home, etc. After one gets hooked during the first or second time, it's hard to go back, especially for those without any help. So yeah, lets have some sympathy for these people, shall we

Nature trails are more than just walking in the park. There is a major tool that can be used. I Add a small article about how can it be beneficial

Focus on optism ,action ,gratitude and resilience,emphasizing that our mindsets shapes our reality,Walt Whitmans,keep your face toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you ,or Oprah Winfrey a be thankful for what yu have you’ll end up having more .