LIVE from Connecticut: Addiction in POC Communities
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio travel to Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, CT for a live show to discuss addiction and mental health in POC communities. They're joined by guests Kelvin Young, sound healer and certified recovery coach, Kenyatta Thompson, senior community organizer at Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice, and Taylor Ford, statewide youth and family coordinator with FAVOR, Inc. The overdose epidemic is often treated as an issue within white communities - who do make up a majority of opioid overdose victims - but a CDC report released earlier this year found that black and Latino individuals are overdosing and dying increasingly faster than white individuals. In Connecticut, where the Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma was based, 93 percent of overdoses in the state are caused by opioids, making it ground zero for the epidemic. In this episode, they talk about the underlying roots of addiction and mental health issues in communities of color. ITT Staff Picks:
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- From Vox: You can’t overdose on fentanyl by touching it. The myth that you can, however, is genuinely dangerous.Thanks to the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut and the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund who made this live show possible. This episode was mixed by Leah Shaw. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:26.0 | Yo what's up in the thick listeners, it's Mariah No Hosa here. |
| 0:31.0 | And it's Julio Regalovaellaoberila you guys today's episode is one of our |
| 0:36.6 | recent live shows you know we've been out on the road traveling all around that's right and this is our first live show from Connecticut. We recorded |
| 0:47.1 | at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich where we talked about addiction |
| 0:51.4 | and mental health in communities of color. |
| 0:53.9 | You know, it was such an important and open and honest conversation, super timely to you |
| 0:58.7 | since we recorded last week. There's been some news as of Monday about a major case that we mentioned during the show |
| 1:05.9 | So here's an update right there's this federal trial that's happening over who is responsible for the overdose epidemic. |
| 1:14.0 | And just an hour before the opening arguments, |
| 1:17.0 | several Ohio counties reached a 260 million dollar settlement. |
| 1:22.0 | We're going to give you some context. $160 million settlement. |
| 1:22.6 | We're going to give you some context. |
| 1:24.3 | According to the Washington Post, |
| 1:26.6 | if the companies had gone to trial these opioid producers, |
| 1:31.7 | it could have potentially cost them over $8 billion. |
| 1:35.7 | So this settlement buys them some time to try to reach a broader settlement with the over 2,000 |
| 1:40.9 | towns, Native American tribes and others who are suing these Big Pharma players. |
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