Rick Perry

He knocked on that guard door in May of 07 and said the governor said if I was ever through here, come by and see him.

They called.

I let him in for dinner.

And my wife, who's a nurse, she recognized this young man who was really troubled, addicted to opioids, masking it with alcohol, really sick.

And for the next two and a half years, he lived with us at the governor's residence.

Wow.

And that started this long journey, literally, with him and trying to find ways to heal him.

We sent him to a host of different places, Carrick Brain Center in Dallas.

We sent him to what's called now Axios Hospital.

athletes' performance in those days, but a great rehab facility down in the panhandle of Florida.

And they helped him manage the opioid addiction, I will suggest to you, until he was treated with Ibogaine, which did clean that completely away from him some years later.

But the point is,

he really struggled.

And he has become like our son.

As a matter of fact, I talked to him this morning.

He said, be sure and tell Joe Howdy for me.

He just thinks the world of you as well.

I talked to his brother the day before.

They understand how powerful this compound is from the standpoint of treating post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, addictions.

I mean, this...