BBC OS Conversations: Addiction during a pandemic
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Nuala McGovern considers alcohol and drug addiction relapse during the pandemic. We hear from two men, in Kenya and the United States, about how they have fought their addictions while under lockdown. Nuala also talks about the importance of family in these times and hears how one man travelled more than 2,000 km across the US to play his trombone for his brother, who was recovering in a rehab centre after a fall. She also talks about how hobbies are helping us and joins a wrestler, a dancer and a musician in conversation about social distancing.
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| 0:00.0 | A bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of people. |
| 0:03.0 | A scientist who wanted it made, but then didn't want it to be used. |
| 0:07.0 | My own grandfather and a picture of a mushroom cloud. |
| 0:11.0 | The bomb, a brand new |
| 0:13.2 | brand new podcast from the BBC World Service available now. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello I'm Nula McGovern and we're bringing you BBC OS |
| 0:22.0 | conversations about coronavirus here on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:27.0 | Hobbies are helping many of us get through these difficult times as does the presence of family and friends |
| 0:37.0 | but for people with addictions even with supportive relatives |
| 0:41.0 | the pandemic has presented a greater challenge. |
| 0:44.4 | I went to an N. A meeting which is Narcotics Anonymous |
| 0:49.4 | anonymous hoping to find a sponsor the next night when I went to go all the meetings got closed due to COVID-19. |
| 1:02.0 | When countries first went into lockdown, everyone reacted differently. |
| 1:07.0 | Some took up a hobby, learning a language for instance, or home baking, |
| 1:12.0 | while others spent more time on existing leisure activities like |
| 1:15.4 | crafting or working out. But not everyone has been able to continue their favorite past time |
| 1:21.7 | during the pandemic and with lockdown |
| 1:24.0 | restrictions and social distancing rules many activities considered |
| 1:28.0 | high risk are no longer possible even this. I need you so that I could die I love you so. |
| 1:41.0 | And that is why whenever I want you all I have to do is free. history. |
| 1:55.0 | The Jupiter singers, a community choir in the UK whose members haven't met up in person since March, |
| 2:02.0 | and the coronavirus has also affected musicians and those who take part in contact sports. |
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