Cammie Wolf Rice
Author, The Flight: My Opioid Journey; Founder, CWC Alliance
Cammie Wolf Rice’s journey is one of turning pain into purpose. After losing her son Christopher to opioid misuse at just 32 years old, she channeled her grief into action, founding CWC Alliance in 2018 and publishing her story, The Flight: My Opioid Journey, in 2022. Through CWC Alliance, she created the Life Care Specialist (LCS) role: a first-of-its-kind position in healthcare to address the critical gap that failed Christopher, making sure patients receive trauma-informed pain management and substance use prevention as part of their care. This approach has since been adopted in six hospitals across the country, was selected as the subject of a Harvard Business School case study, and was named the top recommendation by Georgia’s 2024 House Study Committee on Alternatives to Opioids.