Steve May: The troubled are our neighbors

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Steve May, of Richmond, who is a clinical social worker who has worked in addiction medicine for the last 15 years across multiple agencies in Vermont. He is a member of the Richmond Selectboard and was a Progressive and Democratic candidate for a House seat in 2016.
People can’t simply be boiled down to a lowest common denominator. People are not mismatched socks, they are made of flesh and bone. This reality seems to have been missed by many of