The program is part of First Lady Suzanne Youngkin's It Only Takes One initiative. Youngkin visited VCU for the announcement, which included a discussion with Virginians impacted by opioid addiction.

The discussion featured Tom Bannard, who helped create Rams in Recovery after his own struggle with addiction in college, and Jill Cichowicz, who created the group 2 End the Stigma after losing her twin brother to a fentanyl overdose.

"Kind of my whole life had fallen apart as a result of my addiction and, and I was really, really fortunate because I called home. I had a family that, uh, had some experience with addiction that knew that their son wasn't bad, uh, it wasn't a bad, it wasn't a parenting fail. It was, he was somebody that needed help," Bannard said.

Cichowicz shared her brother

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