Waking up from the American Dream with James Longhenry

Episode 2 - James Longhenry - Marketing exec with Beauterre Recovery Institute and Meridian Behavioral Health

James paints a picture of every small town in America. The unfulfilled American Dream. A sinking feeling that the underlying disappointment with our lives is a toxic shame is rooted in the force-fed delusion of the American Dream. Are we self-medicating the side-effects of our shame that we’ve drifted away from instructions that are impossible to follow? Just take a look at the dream we’re sleep walking through. 

Milwaukee County will spend $11 million in all on projects to reduce drug overdosing. That includes the purchase of 25 vending machines that provide free nasal Narcan, fentanyl test strips and more. It's all part of the effort to beat back a rising number of overdose deaths in the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there were more than 80,000 opioid-related deaths in the U.S. in 2021. In Wisconsin, there were more than 1,400 that year. At the police station in Greenfield, over 180 boxes of Narcan and more than 1,000 fentanyl test strips have been dispensed so far. 

Milwaukee public health officials had an idea for reducing deaths by drug overdoses. They bought vending machines and then stocked them with life-saving supplies — such as Narcan. 

Our entire communities revolve around intoxicant use. When is the last time you’ve interacted with another human being without being under the influence of caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, or other anxiety Band-Aids? We, in recovery from all intoxicants, live in refuge from the borader community who continue to grasp for an escape from reality.  

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