what better time to bring on one of the guys it is like a true ray of sunshine in the cayman region and that's will glorify you doing well doing great you're always doing great buddy absolutely by the way  just per announcement this is sponsored by well it's called the winners circle will spend on and off on and off w g o p for more than a generation he was on with irv lewin anyway i got a lot it's been a while and you know christmas and i have never worn it and they've noticed that you've never worn the sweater that i gave you some look in this morning i'm like you know i better put that baby on it some point here it is you know i wanted to mention is  up i don't even know if he's still alive but i used to i don't get it anymore because it's too expensive but i used to get forbes magazine at home all the time and malcolm forbes would write a column and i think his son steve writes a column now but he wrote it and he said you know it's so easy that just kind of walk around grumpy or just you know like just not have to put afeard into just maintaining a reasonable disposition and all you've got to do is put a little effort in you can be amazed at how the whole world kind of changes if you just like you are just a little bit nicer no question about it you know it's amazing we're being a human being not an animal means we have choices every day you have a choice to be happy or choice to be sad or whatever lies in between but you have that choice and more people should make the choice to feel happy and optimistic about what's out there because we're the ones that make those results happen the that is part of the charge of this show is the winner's circle and to try to bring some people on it have some interesting stories to tell but before we do that you do have an insurance business where is that that's located in dire indiana where ten hundred monticello what kind of insurance do you do we're in the group health benefits business have been for thirty five years and how does that go and terrific i mean i should be and many people are complaining about the issues that are coming and have a occurred but you know what in every dark cloud there's a silver lining in and in our business it actually lead to growth in our business because people need solutions that's what happens every time there are problems that exist out there people need to talk to people that can help them wade their way through it and it with that being said i can give my endorsement and that we were in a complete quandary i told you guys in the past how much money what i was paying personally and will and i sat down for a long time it was not want her to fall calls or wanted to but we finally worked it round so that he's basically helped me cut my health care costs in half and so he's got my endorsement he'll take the and the front page title is of the article no quick fix heroin the rush that ends in a morgue and open up by introducing our guest today didn't even johnson  who is the c e o of edgewater systems and first to ask her a little bit about that issue that we face here in lake county and then take it in a really positive motivational direction with a little bit about her background ok well i am the c e o of edgewater systems as you mentioned it's an organization that's been in business for forty years here and we do serve individuals who have addictions problems drug addiction alcoholic this addiction et c and as the paper mentions the drug problem is a very sick areas problem in our area in our region it's a very serious problem and young people high schoolers even younger than that are getting involved in using drugs illegal drugs some of them having access to prescription drugs in their homes and it becomes very addictive very life altering sometimes leading  death and it's a very very serious problem that we need to get control of it's a very multifaceted problem so there is no easy fix but one thing you said earlier will is that we do have choice and young people do have choice and whether or not they decide to use drugs whether or not they buckle to peer pressure or you know whatever they do have choice however they do need the education and support of family friends teachers et are a comprehensive behavioral health care services provider and we provide services to people anywhere from seven to one hundred seven years old who are suffering with their addictions problems or any other type of mental illness emotional problems we provide services for those in a wide range of services residential treatment inpatient treatment and primarily outpatient services while you know i saw this and i got to be honest with you that i think any parent is like the they see the word heroine on the front page and they're like i don't follow and read that you know i mean it's my wife parents right i would think sell many parents don't want to talk about it they don't want to hear about it however the kids are talking about it and they are hearing about it in schools in their peer groups and so parents need to take the initiative to talk to their kids about it and try to educate their children as to what the effects of drug addiction can be or even taking that first shot of a drug or that first pill but what that sometimes late to i mean sometimes kids very well and they don't become addicted they don't become chronic users but sometimes it happens that way and we have to make sure that our kids are aware of the consequences of taking drugs john in here a regular basis and on the air and both off the air he just kind of shaking his head right now he's like i don't know what happened but you know lake county jail is almost like a treatment facility right now that we have so many heroin people right now what happened i think part of it you know drugs have always been a problem so this is nothing new and nothing different but i think it's coming to the forefront a little more now because of our economic situation you know when people don't have the means to do anything better or to better their lot in life sometimes drugs is sort of an easy way out it's kind of like we don't have to worry about anything don't have to think about anything and so people get involved in other types of activities that may not be beneficial to them and i would have to say that i do believe that the economy has a lot to do with it living in an urban environment where it's very easy to get drugs and you know it's just there are a lots of issues associated with this and it's just really take someone or a group of people to sit down and really try to determine what the factors are you know what things we can do together to lessen the problem and to get people treatment and to get them help because that's a big problem and a lot of the people that are in the jails right now are not receiving the type of treatment that they need in order to help them to overcome their addictions but also to help them to be able to get back out into society and not go back into that same environment and continue to do the same things that they were doing before they need options they need alternatives and we don't provide that for them and all of this really starts like we were talking originally with choice what direction do i mean do i get involved is it worth it what are the consequences to me in life and that's kind of why i wanted to have to need a job because what she does in her work is so important to the area and to the people she serves and that part of choice i'm going to take a little different direction because talking about drugs and total alone we could go on for weeks and the direction i'm going to take it is by i'm going to work backwards chronologically the need is the c e o of edgewater systems your hits that services and health care and instruction from from walden universe law university and before that your next degree i have actually two masters degrees one from the university of chicago and one from indiana university northwest and those are in university chicago is in social service administration indiana university northwest is public administration so here we have a college graduate master's degree and doctorate c e o if i remember eighteen years at edgewater it's correct now could not watch me high school drop out how does that happen choices and that's right i think we can take it to five why she made the choices she could have did versus what she could have done over that period i  remember the most major influence to you in your life was my grandmother x ray my grandmother and i also had a first grade teacher that i talk about a lot mrs kaufman and those people to people in addition to my parents of course but those two people really supported me and encouraged me in my early life and even though we all sometimes if you're off course and make choices that are not in our best interest if you have a good foundation or if you have someone at least one person in your corner one adult in your corner it's going to make a difference and you're always going to be thinking about what they've taught you in terms of the things that you need to do in order to better your life and you're always going to be thinking about if i go this direction well that disappoint that individual will not parents be disappointed will my grandmother be supported how will mrs kaufman feel if i took that route and so those things really make a difference in your life and you have to really kind of just pull it all together and as you say when you begin to make choices you take those things into consideration