The phrase "addresses head-on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a direct approach to dealing with a problem or issue without avoidance.
Example: "The report addresses head-on the challenges faced by the organization in the past year."
Alternatives: "tackles directly" or "confronts openly".
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.
But suicide, that was a silent epidemic, one that needed to be addressed head-on.
But are the ads themselves a problem, or do they reflect a problem — one that gets plenty of media attention, but is rarely addressed head-on?
This is a huge difference, which the chief justice did not address head-on".
But the anxiety raised by the report needs to be addressed head-on.
The gender factor is rarely addressed head-on by Mrs. Clinton's rivals.
