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Podcast: High Truths on Drugs and Addiction
Episode: Episode #86 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Candace Lightner, the mother and founder of MADD
Description: Candy (Candace) Lightner, founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and We Save Lives is recognized nationally and internationally as the moving force behind reshaping the nation's attitude toward drunk driving (as well as drugged and distracted driving).
Recognizing her years of dynamic leadership, the media voted Ms. Lightner as “one of the most influential American citizens of the twentieth century.” People Magazine called her “the Conscience of a Nation” and books have referred to her as the “Mother of Movements.”
She founded MADD after her 13-year-old daughter, Cari, was killed by a multiple repeat offending drunk...