Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing, potentially fatal brain disease. Due to the damage caused to the brain, people who are addicted are often incapable of making rational treatment decisions. The Matthew Casey Wethington Act for Substance Abuse Intervention, an involuntary treatment act, allows parents, relatives and/or friends to intervene on a person who has a substance use disorder regardless of age and without any criminal charges. 'Casey's Law' has provided Kentuckians with a hopeful option, a means of intervening on behalf of their loved ones, before losing them to the criminal justice system or death. Families everywhere are desperate for this law before it's too late for their loved ones who have lost the ability to see the need for treatment and hope for recovery.
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