My January 2, 2024, Letter to Utah State House Majority Leader Mike Schultz in Regard to the 'Association of Utah Substance Abuse Professionals'

 I hope this January 2, 2024, letter I wrote and sent to Utah House of Representatives Majority Leader Schultz proves to be helpful:

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From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>

To: "Mike Schultz" <mikeschultz@le.utah.gov>, "Mike Weichers" <mweichers@ch.utah.gov>, "Gay Lynn Bennion" <glbennion@le.utah.gov>, "mballard@le.utah.gov" <mballard@le.utah.gov>, "Angela Romero" <angelaromero@le.utah.gov>, "utahdistrict02@gmail.com" <utahdistrict02@gmail.com>, "Internships" <internships@romney.senate.gov>, "Joel_wellum" <joel_wellum@lee.senate.gov>, "Cameron Roden" <croden@utah.gov>, "Utah Dept of Health and Human Services" <dhhs@utah.gov>, "Joe Dougherty (DHHS)" <joedougherty@utah.gov>, "Attorney General of Utah" <uag@utah.gov>, "Uag" <uag@agutah.gov>, "Mayor Wilson" <mayor@slco.org>, "County Council Member Bradshaw" <arbradshaw@slco.org>, "llstringham@slco.org" <llstringham@slco.org>, "suharrison@slco.org" <suharrison@slco.org>, "Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall 2021" <mayor@slcgov.com>, "Salt Lake City (UT) City Council" <council.comments@slcgov.com>, "Office of Gov. Spencer Cox" <govcomm@utah.gov>, "Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson 2021" <beckiepage@utah.gov>, "marie.stewart" <marie.stewart@slcgov.com>, "chad.atkinson" <chad.atkinson@slcgov.com>, "leo.abila" <leo.abila@slcgov.com>, "Mike Weichers" <mweichers@ch.utah.gov>, "todd.mitchell" <todd.mitchell@slcgov.com>, "mike.brown" <mike.brown@slcgov.com>, "slcpdpr@slcgov.com" <slcpdpr@slcgov.com>, "Him-roi" <him-roi@umail.utah.edu>, "contactus@imail.org" <contactus@imail.org>, "Joel Briscoe" <jbriscoe@le.utah.gov>, "Jplumb" <jplumb@le.utah.gov>, "Cameron Roden" <croden@utah.gov>, "ryanwilcox@le.utah.gov" <ryanwilcox@le.utah.gov>, "Paul A. Cutler" <pcutler@le.utah.gov>, "Deseret News 2022" <dnweb@deseretnews.com>, "newsmedia@ldschurch.org" <newsmedia@ldschurch.org>, "jsweeney@sltrib.com" <jsweeney@sltrib.com>, "Kimberly Foster" <kimberly.foster@wvc-ut.gov>, "UT_Webmanager" <ut_webmanager@hud.gov>, "U.S. Department of Health & Human Services" <info@hhs.gov>, "University of Utah Student Newspaper 2022" <press@chronicle.utah.edu>, "Utah Chiefs of Police Assn 2021" <vshupe@utahchiefs.org>, "Utah SIAC" <siac@utah.gov>, "Utah Peace Officers Association 2022" <homeupoa@gmail.com>, "Univ of Utah Criminology Dir. Heather Melton" <heather.melton@soc.utah.edu>, "sociology@byu.edu" <sociology@byu.edu>, "Utah Press Assn Director Brian Allfrey 2022" <ballfrey@utahpress.com>, "byu-info@byu.edu" <byu-info@byu.edu>, "daniel.aaron@law.utah.gov" <daniel.aaron@law.utah.gov>, "Utah Restaurant Association 2022" <info@utahrestaurantassociation.org>, "Utah Apartment Association 2022" <info@uaahq.org>, "Ryan Bartlett" <ryan.bartlett@schools.utah.gov>, "Fox News SLC 2022" <news@fox13now.com>, "nbauer@abc4.com" <nbauer@abc4.com>, "nbauer@abc4.com" <nbauer@abc4.com>, "Utah Public Radio 2022" <tom.williams@usu.edu>, "Schools Utah Webmaster" <webmaster@schools.utah.gov>, "Las Vegas Sun newspaper 2022" <feedback@lasvegassun.com>, "Drew Hadley" <drew.hadley@slcgov.com>, "scott.stuck" <scott.stuck@slcgov.com>, "Los Angeles Times" <newstips@latimes.com>, "DenverPostEditors" <newsroom@denverpost.com>, "Cyprus Credit Union" <shauna.denos@cypruscu.com>

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Sent: Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 12:31 AM

Subject: Audit Needed re: 'Assn ofUTSubstanceAbuseProfessionals'

From permanently illicit-drug-free, permanently alcohol-free, lifelong tobacco-free, gainfully employed single adult white male registered voter constituent and tax-paying permanent Utahn resident John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East,  Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

January 2, 2024

Dear Utah State House Majority Leader Mike Schultz,

Happy New Year to yourself and your other conscientiously idealistic  colleagues in the Utah State  House.

I am writing to you today because the  Illicit-Drug Addiction Crisis  and Opioid Addiction Crisis here in Utah are  very tragic, as I am sure you might   agree.

Also tragic is the alarming fact that many Utahns of today, myself among those Utahns, do not recall having ever heard about or read about  the "Association of Utah Substance Abuse Professionals" non-profit organization. That organization is or was  reportedly headquartered in Sandy, Utah.

The online link to the official website for that organization is:  https://ausap.org/

House Majority Leader Schultz, I urge you to please ask the Utah House of Representatives  to vote to  officially request a very thorough and honorable official investigation and audit by the appropriate State Government of Utah agency---the Utah State Tax Commission, the Utah State Auditor, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General of Utah, Utah Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson, Utah Governor Spencer Cox,  or the Utah Department of Public Safety, for instance --- in regard to  the  "Association of Utah Substance Abuse Professionals".

I would  like to share with you the online link for the counterpart professional organization in our neighboring state of Nevada: the "State of Nevada Association for Addiction Professionals".

https://snaap.net/

The "State of Nevada Association for Addiction Professionals" apparently enjoys a lot more news-media publicity, statewide name recognition, prestige, and cultural influence  in Nevada than the "Association of Utah Substance Abuse Professionals"  has  here in the Beehive State.

The Nevada group cited above  is currently active and at its copyrighted official website invites Nevadans employed as Addiction Treatment Professionals to attend one or more of the  monthly meetings of that group:

"2023 Monthly Meeting Schedule

"We meet the 3rd Tuesday of every month at Vegas Stronger (Vegasstronger.org) at 916 N Main Street in Las Vegas, NV 89101 at 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM.  We also make our meetings available via Zoom with the following link:..."

By contrast, when I pursued an online Google search tonight using the official name of the Utahn group with quotation marks around that name, I did not see any link on my computer screen to any news story or feature story or newspaper editorial about the "Association of Utah Substance Abuse Professionals".

 The  noteworthy  "media report" about  that non-profit group which appeared on my computer screen from my Google search indicated that the cited Utahn organization headquartered in Sandy has not submitted with the IRS a required  "Form 990"  information return claiming tax-exempt status for that group at any time  since the year 2016 or 2017:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/743062227

I also tonight visited the official website for the nationwide organization bearing the official name 

"NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals ". Through a search I did at that website, I obtained the following copyrighted  statement  about the "Association of Utah Substance Abuse Professionals":

"The Association of Utah Substance Abuse Professionals (AUSAP)

"Contact Information

"PRESIDENT

"Corey Markisich, MBA, SUDC

cmarkisich@gmail.com 

"P.O. Box 901418

"Sandy, Utah 84090

"801-558-3622

"email: ausap@ausap.org

"www.ausap.org"