Last week, Facing Addiction rang the closing New York Stock Exchange bell.
It was a big moment for the national resource and advocacy group, working to solve America’s public health crisis. With Wall Street paying attention, organization officials hope, corporate America may follow.
Westporter Jim Hood — Facing Addiction’s co-founder and CEO — at the New York Stock Exchange.
Jim Hood — Facing Addiction’s co-founder and CEO — is a longtime Westporter. He helped start the non-profit after his 20-year-old son Austin died of an accidental drug overdose.
The ceremony was a public event. But Jim made it very personal too.
On the stock exchange wall, he left this achingly simple note:
