Ep 11: Addressing Addiction with Kindness and Community Care
Description
Jonathan Orr, a Provincial Crisis Intervention Specialist, opens up about his personal experiences with addiction, and shares how he has used his own experiences to support others and influence positive change.
Time Stamps:
0:00 – Welcome and guest intro and background
0:18 – Land Acknowledgement
0:26 – Trigger warnings notification around: addiction, overdose, suicide, and trauma.
0:35 – Hello and guest self introduction
1:15 - Understanding through lived experience
2:20 - Residential treatment at Pacifica
2:50 - Embracing humanity and connection
3:40 - Living at the Belkin House, resistance and fears
4:40 - Struggle of finding housing
6:10 - Working at Insite
6:15 - Trigger warning: Overdoses
6:25 - Start of the drug toxicity crisis and responding to the crisis with overdose prevention sites
9:00 - Aggression as a trauma response
10:20 - Importance of patience and kindness
12:12 - Peer support training program for peers by peers: Street Degree
13:30 - Training program by people with lived experience: Peer Connect
14:40 - Patience is key
15:50 - Including everyone in the conversation
17:20 - Bringing kindness to intersecting crises
19:45 - Small barriers
21:10 - Pushing healthcare workers beyond their limits
23:58 - No one is prepared for the toll this work takes
24:28 - Additional trauma and difficulty coping after stepping away
26:21 - Community care over self care
28:28 - Overlapping crises and stigma
32:35 - Recovery resources and supports available
35:05 - The power of choice and self determination
37:00 - Healthy coping mechanisms
44:00 - Advice for listeners
45:00 – Thank you and wrap up
45:20 – Outro
Resources:
Care to Speak | Care For Caregivers
SafeCare BC: Your Mental Health Matters
Belkin House - The Salvation Army
Maple Overdose Prevention Site
This podcast is brought to you by:
Care to Speak | Care For Caregivers
Care2Listen Podcast | Care For Caregivers
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