'I don't think anybody knows the demise and despair an addict goes through. ... Addiction is a mental, physical and spiritual disease, and the physical part is the easiest,' Bobbi Jo Reed told those gathered for the Independence Mayor's Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday at the Midwest Genealogy Center. [Mike Genet/The Examiner]
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net Bobbi Jo Reed and her non-profit organization, Healing House in northeast Kansas City, deal out something she herself struggled for years…