Hello everyone, welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast.

My name is Dwayne Austerlund and I'm your host.

Today is Episode 17.

Our guest today is Elvar Sig, and he is going to talk about his project inside the Addicted Mind.

So Elvar created a virtual reality educational tool about addiction, targeted specifically around

teenagers.

What this is is it's a virtual headset that you can wear and walk through three different

stories of people who are struggling with addiction and kind of

understand the signs and symptoms of addiction as you're in these stories. And as I said earlier,

it's kind of an educational tool. And this was inspired by his own personal story of his mother

who passed away from an opioid overdose. And so he's going to talk about

both those things, the inspiration and this project. I think it's a really amazing project.

And to see what he did with that loss and that tragedy is pretty profound. What's pretty awesome

is that he reached out to me because he was looking for the domain name,

The Addicted Mind, and came across my site when I was just starting this podcast.

And then he reached out to me a little while later after I had started.

And we talked a little bit more.

And I said, why don't you come on and be a guest and share this project?

So that's what this episode is all about.

I hope you guys really enjoy it.

I think it's pretty profound what can come out of the tragedy of addiction.

So here you go.

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