S1E58 / An Overdose Epidemic – Deaths of Despair Pt I / Sandra Lindie, Will Cooke, Jennifer Fecu

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

KFF Health News and Just Human Productions

Society & Culture, #Eradication, Medicine, #Covid, Science, Life Sciences, #Sarscov2, Documentary, #Coronavirus, #Covid19, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

"When the pandemic hit, many of our recovery groups went online but that's really not the same. All that great work we had been building momentum towards came to a screeching halt." -Will Cooke Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Social distancing measures and quarantine have created deadly complications for people recovering from addiction. In this episode we'll hear two stories, one from New York City and another from Austin, Indiana, about how the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating the overdose epidemic. This is the first in a two part series on Deaths of Despair and the pandemic. For more information about Imani's Safe House, go to https://www.imanissafehouse.com This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	When the pandemic hit, our recovery groups shut down, many of them went online, but that's really not the same.
0:20.0	All that great work that we had been building momentum towards and really seeing amazing results came
0:26.3	to a screeching halt. You're listening to Epidemic, the podcast about the science, public health, and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
0:46.4	I'm your host, Dr. Saline Gounder. Since the start of the pandemic many Americans have had to shelter in place and
1:04.6	forego their regular lives. This has disrupted community ties and severed the
1:09.6	possibility of in-person real real world contact.
1:13.0	Humans are social creatures.
1:15.0	We don't typically do well in isolation,
1:18.0	but for some people, the health effects of being alone for so long
1:22.0	have been fatal. This is the first in
1:25.6	our two-part series discussing the effects of quarantine on deaths of despair,
1:30.1	deaths from drug overdose, and suicide.
1:33.8	Today, my co-host is our research and production
1:36.2	associate Temi Fagbenley.
1:38.7	Hey, I'm Temi.
1:40.4	Tell us what this episode is about and why you wanted to work on it.
1:44.0	So when we first started discussing this topic, I was immediately intrigued.
1:49.0	I know a number of people who are in recovery and for various reasons the pandemic has been especially hard for them.
1:58.0	So you really had a personal connection to this story. It's a really sensitive topic. How did you go about
2:05.3	choosing someone?
2:06.3	Yeah, I actually lost a friend of mine, Imani Fiku, to an overdose this summer.
2:11.6	You know, when you're in in recovery it's really important to have
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