By Michele Zipkin
Philadelphia lawyer Kevin Hyer was 39 when he tried meth, quickly became addicted, and almost died. He had no history of drug use. After he underwent treatment and entered into recovery, he started the foundation Hyer Calling to help fight the stigma associated with people experiencing addiction and their journey to regaining employment in recovery.
“Addiction is a family disease caused by ineffectively managed emotional pain,” Hyer, who is gay, said. “By telling my story as an employment lawyer to eliminate the stereotypes of meth addiction, The Hyer Calling Foundation raises money to offer people in recovery the hope, purpose and identity that only a career offers — and replace the void previously filled with drugs and alcohol.”
According to a research paper by Dr. Beth Han at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, “US age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths involving methamphetamine increased nearly 5-fold during 2012-2018.”
And in an op-ed for the New York Times in 2020, Jim Mangia, president and chief executive of St. John’s Well Child and Family Center, wrote that “an overwhelming majority of patients we treat in our substance abuse programs are addicted to crystal meth. Because meth addiction disproportionately affects gay men, it hasn’t risen to the level of priority and intervention of other addictions.”
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