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FORCE members at a panel table at the National Press Club, June 2016

Female Opioid Research & Clinical Experts

An alliance of women with scientific, health policy and medical expertise in opioid addiction.

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A new non-profit foundation named FORCE (Female Opioid Research & Clinical Experts) is an alliance of women with scientific, health policy and medical expertise in opioid addiction and who are well positioned to reduce the stigma and treatment barriers that people with opioid addiction face every day. FORCE honors distinguished women who have served the public good through their efforts in dealing with the opioid epidemic. Help us reduce stigma. Join FORCE today!

Our Mission

FORCE intends to drive awareness of the critical need for ongoing outpatient evidence-based treatment and the importance of staying alive and functional.

FORCE will take on common injustices and treatment barriers rooted in stigma, including: a law enforcement mentality that criminalizes rather than treats opioid addiction, reliance on treatment modalities that are not supported by clinical evidence; and inadequate societal support for access to high-quality addiction treatment, including reimbursement coverage of life-saving medications.

Dr. Andrea Barthwell, FORCE Newsletter, July 2016

We want to move

  1. from addicts to patients
  2. from arrest addicts to arrest the disease
  3. from a moral failing to a spiritual awakening
  4. from reducing deaths to restoring life
  5. from resurrect from death to intervene for treatment
  6. from abstinence to recovery
  7. from detox from drugs to the development of healthy rituals
Dr. Andrea Barthwell Chairwoman of FORCE FORCE Newsletter, July 2016, page 1 (PDF, 4 pages)
Bobbi Cattanese in FORCE's public service film

Bobbi Cattanese, Founder & CEO, Links Advocate & Rehab Services; Founder & CEO, Scents of Purpose, in New Year PSA - Full Length

That’s why we say,

“It’s Chemistry, Not Character.”

FORCE Newsletter, July 2016, page 3
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Our responsibility as physicians is to bring evidence-based care to patients who are in need, to help educate families on what that care should look like, to help educate policy makers on what policies should be put into place to support appropriate care, treatment and prevention.

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  • New Year PSA - Full Length

    MP4, 76 MB

  • Kelly and Patrick Kennedy - 15 Second PSA

    MP4, 5.0 MB

  • Patrick Kennedy PSA

    MP4, 55 MB

  • Patrick Kennedy - 30 Second PSA

    MP4, 11 MB

  • Promise PSA - Full Length

    MP4, 76 MB

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FORCE is an alliance of women experts in health policy, clinical medicine and scientific endeavors, with a mission to reduce stigma and treatment barriers and provide access to evidence-based treatment

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