Toward a World that Works for Everyone
The documentaries below give voice to stories of the opioid crisis for American families. Families on the frontline of America’s greatest public health crisis . . . over 100,000 deaths a year . . . 9/11 every 10 days . . . The second one has a very strong message. In Canada, where I am, […]
Alberta vs Ottawa: A New Vision of Health | Minister Dan Williams Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with Canada’s Minister of Mental Health and Addiction, Dan Williams. They discuss how Canada became the epicenter of the world’s opioid crisis, the federal approach that only enables further addiction, the demoralization of Canadians as the country’s […]
RFK Jr explaining how many die in America a year from the opioid crisis and how much is spent on war: *** Volunteering at John Volken Academy, a therapeutic community, for a few years before covid, I witnessed first hand how teaching our youth life skills can bring someone struggling with addiction back to themselves, […]
Undercover phone call in Ontario captures evidence of safer supply dealing and alleged access to doctor facilitator By Adam Zivo, The Bureau, Sep 19, 2024 https://www.thebureau.news/p/government-heroin-documentary-exposes Although there is ample evidence that Canada’s “safer supply” programs are being widely defrauded and flooding communities with opioids, advocates continue to deny that this problem exists. That’s why […]
RFK Jr pulls out all the stops looking directly at addiction with the ideas to bring the situation to balance. In America, 50 million addicts, and just last year 100, 000 drug overdoses. The panel at the end of this video brings discussion into the equation of healing, even speaking to harnessing the courage of […]
By Charlotte Waddell, Christine Schwartz, Jen Barican, Nicole L.A. Catherine, The Conversation, August 14, 2024 https://theconversation.com/early-prevention-programs-for-children-could-help-end-the-opioid-crisis- Can a program for Grade 7 students help end the opioid crisis? The answer is yes, according to compelling research findings on school-based primary prevention interventions. As noted by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, the opioid […]
“Recovering America” is a new documentary, produced by filmmakers Robert Campos, Donna LoCicero, and Brandon Dumlao, scheduled to debut in Albuquerque, NM, June 15, 2024. Below is the 3 minute trailer: In the film, RFK Jr. searches for the most promising solutions to the nation’s out-of-control drug crisis. Drug overdoses kill more than 100,000 […]
Opioids Came for Country Music. It’s Fighting Back With fentanyl and pills flooding communities at the heart of the genre, artists such as Brad Paisley, Elvie Shane, Jaime Wyatt, and others are meeting the crisis in song and in action Jaime Wyatt: “We’ve got to normalize treatment and therapy, just like you would get your […]
Since the death of his son, Harlan, in 2023 to an accidental drug poisoning, Joseph Fourre has been raising awareness about the harms of drugs with a campaign to youth called, No Thanks I’m Good. On Face to Face, below, Fourre discusses his son, the campaign and his past overcoming addictions. Looking to their […]
Understanding the Fentanyl Crisis John Leake, Courageous Discourse, January 4, 2024 https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/understanding-the-fentanyl-crisis Austin Police Department veteran gives excellent overview Over the last year I’ve heard multiple stories of young people taking what they thought were recreational drugs—or pharmaceutical drugs for recreational purposes—that turned out to be spiked with fatal quantifies of fentanyl. Fentanyl is making […]
By Benjamin Hart, Intelligencer, December 6th, 2022 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-homelessness.html Sam Quinones has covered gangs, crime, and the border for 35 years, including a ten-year stint at the L.A. Times. He established himself as a leading voice on the opioid epidemic with the 2015 book Dreamland, which told the story of how prescription-drug companies and a sophisticated […]
This is part one of an investigation into a revolutionary money laundering system involving Chinese organized crime, Latin American drug cartels and Chinese officials. Some critics of Beijing say that analysis applies to another threat: fentanyl. China is the top producer of the lethal drug that has killed tens of thousands of Americans. . . […]
Opinion: Vancouver’s DTES funding approach is a “band-aid on a broken leg” By Matthew Norris (guest writer), Daily Hive, Aug 31 2022 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/opinion-vancouver-downtown-eastside-funding Every Vancouverite deserves to feel safe and be safe in our city. But throwing more money at our failed approach isn’t the answer. Here’s why. Our city is stuck in a tragic […]
By Heather Wishart-Smith, Forbes, July 12, 2022 https://www.forbes.com/sites/heatherwishartsmith/2022/07/12/reinventing-how-we-view-substance-abuse/?sh=4acf800a66cb In September 2016, there was a video that went viral. It was viewed and shared so many times that the Washington Post and New York Times covered it, in addition to countless local and national news outlets. It wasn’t Adele’s Carpool Karaoke with James Corden or the […]
2021 now deadliest year for illicit-drug overdoses in B.C., after record 201 deaths in October, coroner says CBC News, December 9th, 2021 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-toxic-drugs-oct-2021-1.6279018 As the number of people dying from illicit drug overdoses in British Columbia continues to climb to grim heights, the province’s coroner is calling for an urgent and immediate response from all […]
