Additional Resources
Videos
PBS Newshour. (2021). Fatherhood, addiction and recovery: an Indigenous man’s story from Canada’s Yellowknife. By PBS NewsHour. There is a series of short stories from the Indigenous community in Yellowknife, Canada exploring alcohol use, addiction, resilience and healing. The “Turning Points” project, from the Global Reporting Center, is a series produced, directed and authored by Indigenous people who wanted to share their stories. On this Father’s Day, William Greenland reads a letter he wrote to his son about his life, struggles, addictions, and what he’s learned.(1)
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Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari – Ted Talk
Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari – Ted Talk. What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do — and if there might be a better way.(2)
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I Died Six Times … Let’s End the Stigma of Harm Reduction | Guy Felicella. By TedTalk. Giving people perspective from a lived experience that no matter what the odds are against an individual struggling in addiction, people do get better. People do get their lives and families back and do become productive members of society. When we remove the stigma of addiction and harm reduction and look at the individual with compassion, amazing things can happen!(3)
Transcript
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1. Click on “YouTube” on the bottom-right of the video. This will take you directly to the YouTube video.
2. Click on the More Actions icon (represented by three horizontal dots)
3. Click on “Open Transcript”
Podcast
Crackdown
Crackdown is a monthly podcast that aims to explore drugs and drug policy. It was created by drug users, to tell their stories . Garth Mullins, the show’s host and a drug user and activist, wants the podcast to highlight the insight that users can bring to the discussion on drugs(4).
Harm Reduction Podcasts
Miscellaneous
- Benefits of peer support groups in the treatment of addiction
- Life In Recovery from Addiction Addiction Report
https://www.farcanada.org/family-support/support-yourself/embed/#?secret=FENd5NNWed
Attribution
Exploring Substance Use in Canada by Julie Crouse is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, with minor revisions & additions for clarity and ease of use.
References
- PBS Newshour. (2021, June 20). Fatherhood, addiction and recovery: an Indigenous man’s story from Canada’s Yellowknife [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN4ax3kYqIw
- Hari, J. [TED ]. (2015, July 9). 0:03 / 14:42 Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs
- Felicella, G. [TEDxTalks]. (2018, July 18). I Died Six Times . . . Let’s End the Stigma of Harm Reduction [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uQxbh5mSPs
- Keen F., Birchard I (2019, January 30). New podcast made by drug users aims to change how you think about addiction – CBC. CBC News. Retrieved April 25, 2022, from https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-30-2019-1.4998405/new-podcast-made-by-drug-users-aims-to-change-how-you-think-about-addiction-1.4998426#:~:text=Crackdown%20is%20a%20monthly%20podcast,to%20the%20discussion%20on%20drugs.
