This is What Recovery Looks Like: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to episode 6 of This is What Recovery Looks Like. This month, we’re shifting the conversation away from harm reduction to an equally important, and often stigmatized, topic: recovery and sexuality. Phil interviews Stacie Ysidro, the founder & CEO of Holistic Progressions, and a professional sex coach for over 10 years.
Resources:
Contact: Stacie Ysidro in St Petersburg, FL
- Accepts clients virtually and in person
- Email: Holisticprogressions@gmail.com
- Instagram: @sexcoach_stacieysidro
- Facebook: Holistic Progressions
- YouTube: Holistic Progressions
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We're wrapping up our harm reduction mini-series with an interview with Tracie Gardner, Senior Vice President of Policy Advocacy at the Legal Action Center, to discuss the past and present political advocacy efforts around harm reduction.
Hear Tracie discuss how she came into harm reduction work, federal policies and advocacy initiatives that are moving us forward, the disproportionate harm the Black community has faced throughout the War on Drugs, and what advice she would give to those looking to get involved in harm reduction advocacy.
Resources (from LAC's website):
- Treatment for opioid use disorder – not separate but still unequal
- How equitable strategies in harm reduction are keeping communities safe
- Maia Szalavitz: “The work you’re doing before you get out of the chaos still counts.”
- Harm Reduction for All Drugs and All People? The Government Isn’t Sure.
Mentioned:
- The New Jim Crowby Michelle Alexander
- Root Shockby Mindy Fullilove, MD
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In this month's episode, we continue our multi-part series on harm reduction with an international guest, Annemarie Ward, CEO of Faces & Voices of Recovery UK, to expand the scope of our conversation and find points of comparison between UK and US approaches to drug policy and recovery support.
Hear Annemarie's perspective on the many ways that the UK is leading the charge in harm reduction services, the false choice that pits harm reduction and recovery advocates against one another, and the disparities in access to recovery support that have led to alarming death rates in Scotland.
Resources:
- Still no harm reduction? A critical review of the UK Government’s new Drug Strategy
- Ignoring evidence, looking tough, and the need for harm reduction in UK drug policy
- An ethical analysis of UK drug policy as an example of a criminal justice approach to drugs: a commentary on the short film Putting UK Drug Policy into Focus
- Putting UK Drug Policy into Focus
- Drug Consumption Facilities – What you need to know
- Scottish Government working on new plan for drug consumption room in Glasgow, says John Swinney
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Last month we witnessed stigmatizing, racist news coverage and public discourse surface around the Department of Health and Human Services' Harm Reduction Grant Program. To combat the misinformation being circulated, this episode is the first conversation in a 3-part series about Harm Reduction.
In Part 1, Phil has a powerful conversation with Brittany Salerno, a founding member of the Philadelphia Overdose Prevention Network and an emergency buprenorphine coordinator at the Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy. Hear Brittany discuss the meaning of Harm Reduction, how it is socially stigmatized, her experiences in clinical and advocacy settings, and how she became involved in this life-saving work.
Resources:
- Principles of Harm Reduction - National Harm Reduction Coalition
- Issue brief: Nation’s drug-related overdose and death epidemic continues to worsen - American Medical Association
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In this episode, Phil talks with Faces & Voices of Recovery's Operations Manager, Tamika Carter-Hargrove, and VP of Education & Strategic Development at CCAPP Academy, Kristina Padilla, about all things self-care: how we practice it, why it has become so crucial during the pandemic, how the Eight Dimensions of Wellness can help us strive for balance, and even when self-care crosses over into self-harm.
Resources:
- The Eight Dimensions of Wellness (credit: Northwestern University)
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Welcome to This is What Recovery Looks Like! In the first episode, host Phil Rutherford is joined by two recent additions to the Faces & Voices of Recovery team, Krissi Jacob and Liam Lipham, for a light-hearted discussion on the usefulness of making (and sustaining) New Year's Resolutions, how habit changes may intersect with recovery, and the value of having a self-care practice for folks from all pathways and in any walk of life.
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