Drugs, Addiction, and Social Conditions
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2019
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Mel joins Breht in-studio to discuss drugs, addiction, trauma, and mental illness and their connections to the social conditions which capitalism manifests and imposes upon us.
Topics discussed include childhood trauma, pharmaceutical companies profiting off of addiction epidemics, the family unit under capitalism, the limitations and failures of AA, Left organizing around the issues of addiction, the necessary politicization of mental illness, alienation, the complicated emotional landscape of addiction in the family, the power of community, evolving as social/communal animals, and much more!
Contact our guest Mel on Twitter @ColdBrewedTool
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.7 | Today on our show we have my comrade Mel into talk about drugs, addiction and social |
| 0:14.1 | conditions. |
| 0:15.1 | We talk about mental illness and its relationship to capitalism, corporate profiting off of |
| 0:20.1 | the drug epidemic, etc. |
| 0:21.9 | Really excited about this episode. |
| 0:23.3 | I think it marks us really focusing on contemporary issues in the same way that motherhood under |
| 0:28.6 | capitalism focused on it and people really sort of liked that episode a lot and so I hope |
| 0:33.0 | this is an accessible leftist analysis of drugs and addiction in our society. |
| 0:37.8 | Before we get to the episode, our rating and reviewing on iTunes has taken a little bit |
| 0:41.9 | of a dip as I've been targeted by various right-wing reactionary sources. |
| 0:46.6 | They've gone on to our page on iTunes and left shitty reviews and it's brought in our |
| 0:52.1 | five star rating down to a 4.5 star rating. |
| 0:54.9 | The one very simple way to help this show without spending even a cent on us is to just |
| 0:59.3 | go to iTunes, leave us a five star positive review and sort of beat back some of these reactionary |
| 1:04.1 | assholes who are trying to make our show look shitty. |
| 1:07.5 | So yeah, having said that, let's go ahead and get into this really important discussion |
| 1:10.7 | on drugs and addiction and social conditions with Mel. |
| 1:25.3 | Okay, my name is Mel. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm an anarchist from Omaha, Nebraska. |
| 1:32.4 | I am a journalist, copywriter and graduate student. |
| 1:36.6 | I am also a recovering alcohol and drug abuser. |
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