Inside the battle over funding for addiction research
NBC Newsยท2025-11-09 00:36
Jean Bartisan grew up on a farm with an alcoholic father. >> I can remember going through the barns and the haloffs and finding uh bottles of vodka and taking them down to the creek and smashing them. >> Bartisan himself drank for decades while raising four kids with his wife.He got sober, but the cycle continued with two of his children. Bartisan's son Tommy drank himself to death in 2016. I guess there is probably no way to explain uh what it's like to lose a son.Uh particularly when um you know I felt th ...