Rotary Club of Edina will welcome Lexi Reed Holtum of the Steve Rummler Hope Foundation as program speaker at the Thursday, Dec. 3, meeting. She will speak about "The Dilemma of Chronic Pain and Addiction." The Edina Rotary Foundation, along with Rotary District 5950, awarded the Steve Rummler Hope Foundation a local grant in 2014. 
 
New members David Aase and John Mazzara will be inducted at the meeting.
 
Lexi Reed Holtum, vice president of programs for the Steve Rummler Hope Foundation, will be the program speaker at the Thursday, Dec. 3, Rotary Club of Edina meeting. She will speak about "The Dilemma of Chronic Pain and Addiction." The Steve Rummler Hope Foundation’s vision is a world where individuals with chronic pain receive integrated care focused on wellness rather than drugs, and those with addiction have easy access to compassionate evidence-based treatment. Reed Holtum will give an overview of the ways in which the foundation seeks to create this vision. Bill and Judy Rummler started the foundation in response to their grief when their son, Steve, died of a prescription drug overdose in 2011. The foundation was founded to heighten awareness around chronic pain and the disease of addiction.
 
Bill Rummler is the chairman of the board of directors for the Steve Rummler Hope Foundation. Judy Rummler is the president and chief financial officer. The vision for the foundation is a world where individuals with chronic pain receive integrated care focused on wellness rather than drugs, and those with addiction have easy access to compassionate evidence-based treatment.
 
The mission of the Steve Rummler Hope Foundation is to heighten awareness of the dilemma of chronic pain and the disease of addiction and to improve the associated care process. Their goals are:

    •    A public that wants to end the epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths
    •    Healthcare professionals who are educated in and practice responsible opioid prescribing
    •    Pain patients who receive treatment focused on wellness rather than drugs
    •    Health care that offers easy access to compassionate, evidence-based treatment
 
The Rotary Club of Edina, along with Rotary District 5950, awarded the Steve Rummler Hope Foundation $11,000 in grant money in 2014 to make a video raising awareness of the role prescription drugs can play in addiction and overdoses. The premiere of the video was at a Rotary Club of Edina meeting later that year.
 
New members David Aase and John Mazzara will be inducted at the meeting.
 
There are only two Rotary Club of Edina regular meetings left in 2015. The Dec. 3 meeting, and the last official Rotary meeting of the year on Dec. 10. The Rotary Club of Edina Holiday Party is from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, at the Edina Country Club.
 
Rotary Club of Edina meets most Thursdays at the Edina Country Club. Cost for the lunch and program is $19 for adults and $12 for children. All are welcome.