E.231 Breaking The Stigma Around Addiction (Part 2 of 2)

Resilience Development in Action

Steve Bisson

Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Psychology, Counseling, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Honest, Substance Use, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Send us a text As we continue the conversation with Lisa, Trusas. Stigma is a quiet siren—it keeps people from asking for help, and it teaches the rest of us to look away. We open up about what addiction really looks like inside emergency services and at home, from dispatch centers and correctional facilities to ERs and patrol rooms. We talk about growing up in households where chaos felt normal, why “functioning alcoholic” gets a pass while heroin use gets a scarlet letter, and how the words...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Resilience Development in Action with Steve Bisson.
0:06.1	This is the podcast dedicated to first responder mental health, helping police, fire,
0:11.4	EMS, dispatchers, and paramedics create better growth environments for themselves and their teams.
0:17.5	Let's get started.
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1:10.2	Well, hi and welcome to this bonus episode.
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1:20.5	With resilience development and action, but more importantly, with someone I truly love adore and love talking to is Lisa Truces. Lisa, you know, we talked about this patch, and I will tell the audience and I will say the same thing to you.
1:30.3	I wanted people to hear the real thing about dispatch.
1:34.3	I appreciate it.
1:35.3	And I will never ever forget to mention my dispatch people.
1:40.3	I told you before any interview that I think we got to figure out a way to, not call it first responders, but maybe emergency responders.
1:48.0	Because I think of my dispatch, sometimes not being included.
1:51.9	I think about my ER nurses and doctors, and I work with those two.
1:56.6	And that's not first line, but it's first line and a half maybe.
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