Josh Lawson
Portsmoth, OH

Josh Lawson serves in southern Ohio, where his faith-based work centers around issues related to drug recovery and harm reduction. He is a community organizer for Faith in Public Life Ohio and chairperson for the faith-based subcommittee of the Scioto County Collaborative Opioid Consortium. His upcoming book, The Face of Addiction, seeks to reduce the cultural stigma surrounding drug users by telling the stories of twelve people whose lives have been impacted by the opioid crisis in southern Ohio.