[Applause] When I was a kid and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always said an actor. As I got older, that dream shifted to becoming a teacher. Never did I imagine that I would become an addict.Yet here I stand as one of the 46.3% million people in the United States with a substance use disorder. For 20 years, I struggled with addiction, a relentless uphill battle that often felt impossible to win. I tried and failed more times than I could count.And there were times when I thought I w ...