, the cause-driven, Grammy winning singer/songwriter/guitarist, discussing the origins of the Etheridge Foundation formed in 2021, a year after she lost her son to an opioid addiction.
“It’s about the power in oneself to take on what seems like too much, too impossible,” Etheridge said Thursday night at an intimate roundtable gathering at the Park West Gallery in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, raising awareness for the foundation.
“Drug addiction can be such a stigma and families can be filled with so much shame and guilt, especially if you lose that loved one. It’s really hard,” Etheridge said. “Just as I lost him, I thought there might be other options. I myself had been going through my own discovery of plant medicine, I am 20 years cancer free, and plant medicine, especially cannabis, had played a big part of that through my life.
Anna Symonds, executive director of the Etheridge Foundation, said 15 million in the U.S. suffer from opioid addiction, which causes a death every five minutes in the country. Plant-based medicines, she said, “help us address emotional, mental and even spiritual issues that underly so much of the physical dependence that happens with opioids in particular. The trouble is there’s a stigma against these medicines and laws against them in some cases.
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