Heroes Of The Addiction Crisis: How William “Bill” Stilley of Adial Pharmaceuticals Is Helping To Battle One of Our Most Serious Epidemics

The pandemic is creating an explosion of addiction, and mental health disorders in general. Think about this for a minute — if you had asked me a year and a half ago that we were going to close the bars and we were going to stop people from going to social parties what I would you expect to happen to alcohol consumption? I would have told you I expect it to drop. What we’ve seen is the opposite. Alcohol sales have actually increased even though people are not going to bars and not going to parties. A recently conducted a nationwide survey that showed nearly 70% of Americans have increased drinking (and equally devastating numbers have been reported for opioid addiction).

As a part of my series about “Heroes Of The Addiction Crisis” I had the pleasure of interviewing…