The phrase "addresses head on" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English
It means confronting or tackling a problem or issue directly and honestly. Example: The CEO's speech at the company meeting addresses head on the recent financial challenges and presents a comprehensive plan for improvement.
It also addresses head-on issues like the role that the exploitation of poor women and discrimination has played in spreading H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.
Along with chronicling her early life in the California suburbs, her art school days and her parallel careers as a visual artist, Gordon addresses head-on the demands foisted upon female musicians working in a largely male domain.
A much smarter, more carefully conceived program than her debut at the club last year, "New York in June" addresses head-on the stereotypes and assumptions with which Ms. Salonga, being Asian, has had to contend.
"The Rockefellers" addresses head-on the ethical question that runs subliminally through those other programs: Can you do what it takes to become rich and be thought of as good?
Pepper Dennis, Rebecca Romijn's newsroom show on the soon-to-be-defunct WB, addresses head-on the inherent fear that audiences might not believe a beautiful woman can be funny.
His two-part solo, called "Not/Without Words" and set to music by Evelyn Glennie, the acclaimed percussionist, who is hearing impaired, addresses head-on what would normally be an infirmity in dance and makes something new and valid of it.
Also their lives, as Season 2 addresses head-on in a decidedly brutal way.
It's not a mashup of various concepts we've seen a hundred times, nor is it an updated "Sex and the City" (an inevitable comparison, which "Girls" addresses head-on).
Sarah Wakeman, MD, medical director for substance use disorders at Massachusetts General hospital, adds, "The best thing about this report is how it addresses head-on the false notion that treating opioid use disorder with methadone or buprenorphine is a substitution or that treated individuals are 'addicted' to methadone.
But suicide, that was a silent epidemic, one that needed to be addressed head-on.
