Recovery Series: Nikki Arvon MD

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Our latest podcast episode marks the beginning of Healthcare is Human: Recovery Series, an in-depth look at individuals working in substance abuse recovery in Martinsburg, WV. Who are the incredible folks doing this important work? With such a difficult disease, why do they choose to work in recovery? 

We meet Dr. Nikki Arvon, a specialist in addiction medicine at the WVU Crisis Recovery and Support Center on Wilson Street. Working in her hometown, she says, “I feel in love with these people,” in describing community members suffering from addiction.  Hear her full interview and learn how she came to find her passion helping others find hope, often when these same people had given up on themselves. 

This podcast episode also features Renée K. Nicholson reading an original poem, “Boy Killed on the Grafton Road,” and music composed and performed by Robert Sears and Jared Sims. Isaac McCarthy plays the banjo to open and close the show. 

Healthcare is Human was created by Ryan McCarthy and is a signature program of the Humanities Center at WVU. 

This podcast is engineered by Kym Mattioli. 

Visit Healthcare is Human on Facebook and Instagram to see incredible photography by Molly Humphreys, native of Shepherdstown, WV, whose world-class commercial portfolio can be found by searching for Piccadilly Posh Photography. 

Visit the Pylons Commons at the Robert C. Byrd Health Science Center in Morgantown, WV, to see our latest gallery show, running through June 2024. Forty of the project’s outstanding photographs are featured, alongside poetry by Marc Harshman, Torli Bush, Renée Nicholson, and Randi Ward. 

Accompanying film, “Healthcare is Human,” can  be viewed in William A. Neal Museum, directed by Corwyn Garman and featuring musical score composed by Robert Sears and Jared Sims. Exhibit generously supported by the WVU Foundation and the WVU Health Science Center. 

Healthcare is Human is featured on TED.com. 

Healthcare is Human is supported by the West Virginia Humanities Council, WVU Medicine, and generous donors in our community. 

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Stay tuned for more great stories from healthcare. Come participate in our workshop at the 2024 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You in Atlanta, GA, in February. 

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