Blending Recovery & Addiction

This video will provide healthcare providers with an understanding of why so many of our people - People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) - are unable to overcome addiction. We will share our journey together through two pandemics (COVID and The Overdose Crisis) and how we supported each other through recovery and through active addiction. Our hope is that people can better understand the multiple layers of trauma that PWUD experience, along with the importance and benefits of reviving the Indigenous culture for land based healing.

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This video is part of the Hearts-based Education and Anti-Colonial Learning (H.E.A.L.) project. H.E.A.L. Healthcare invites you to explore ways we have come to be in this world through arts-based learning tools providing an opportunity to deepen understandings about cultural humility, cultural competency, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism.

View the entire H.E.A.L. Healthcare Learning Resource library at HEALhealthcare.ca

The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning Project brings together artists, writers, activists, and people with lived experience to create arts-based anti-oppression curriculum and learning materials for healthcare educators, professionals, and practitioners wanting to address biases and ‘-isms’ that permeate healthcare systems and culture. The curricula provided on this site address the longstanding and well-established health disparities exist because of racist, colonial, able-body/minded, geographic, economic, and gendered inequities.

For more learning opportunities, visit healhealthcare.ca