On August 26 2021, YMG hosted a livestream as part of our Therapy Thursday series. The subject matter was how to combat the stigma surrounding opioid addiction and get people who use the help they need.
Addiction it’s like that constant craving and there is no satisfaction once you have it stigma is always been out there but when it comes to opioid addiction this is a lack of understanding someone has diabetes um you know the doctor is going to tell you everything you need to know about being a diabetic when it comes to opioid use addiction a lot of
People they’ve already formed an opinion in their mind our society really isn’t kind to people that they don’t think is keeping up most of the time when people use opioids they don’t have the drive to go to work and do things that society expects us to do so therefore they drop out and they become people that we discard in this society harm reduction is a big
Component in helping people get to sobriety so people are using we want to make sure that they’re safe while they’re using so they can live another day offering them clean needles surfaces water to rinse their syringes all those types of things another thing is to encourage people to go to treatment and not put people in jail a lot of my clients are in jail and
They really need to be in treatment i carry narcan also known as naloxone i carry it with me just in case you know i encounter someone that has mad an overdose i am prepared to revive that individual everybody should have a kid i think even if you don’t know anybody that uses you could be anywhere and experience an overdose and it’s amazing how fast it works
And how easy it is to administer there’s always hope as long as we’re breathing and what we have been reduced to these days is just trying to keep people alive long enough to get them into detox with treatment as long as people are alive they have a chance and so it’s really important that we understand it may have been six times seven times eight times as
They’ve been around and then they come back around again but maybe that eighth time is the time it it they get it you
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"Carry Naloxone, It Could Save a Life" | Opioid Addiction: Therapy Thursday In Sum (Ep. 13) By Youthcast Media Group
