HeyJaredGHAI: Overdose Prevention Initiative's Substack
The Overdose Prevention Initiative, led by the Global Health Advocacy Incubator HAI and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, launched in October 2021 as a national, high-impact advocacy initiative to address the U.S. overdose crisis.
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Brave Recovery: Episode 5: “The Recovery Story I Couldn't Find” Featuring Laura Cathcart Robbins (opens the original)
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When Laura Cathcart Robbins got sober in 2008, she did what she has done her whole life. She went looking for a book. She wanted a memoir by a Black woman navigating addiction, a divorce, and two young kids, at the intersection of race and privilege. Bookstore after bookstore, it wasn’t there. So years later she wrote it.<a class="button primary" href="https://overdosepreventioninitiative.substack.com/p/brave-recovery-episode-5-the-recovery?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&
Brave Recovery: Episode 4: “Three Days Too Late” Featuring Angela Kennecke (opens the original)
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Investigative journalist Angela Kennecke spent three decades covering the opioid crisis in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. On May 16, 2018, she was interviewing three parents whose children had died of overdoses when she got the call about her own daughter. Emily was 21. She died of fentanyl poisoning three days before a scheduled intervention.<a class="button primary" href="https://overdosepreventioninitiative.substack.com/p/brave-recovery-episode-4-three-days?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&ut
Brave Recovery: Episode 3: "What Happens When Women Stop Hiding?” Featuring Carolyn Wiger (opens the original)
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Millions of people met Carolyn Wiger on Survivor 44, and again on The Traitors, where her refusal to pretend made her one of the most beloved players in the show’s history. Long before that, she started using drugs at 14. She got sober at 22. She has now been in recovery for 17 years.Share</p
Brave Recovery: Episode 2: "Opportunity, Not Charity” Featuring Kelly Lyndgaard (opens the original)
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In 2015, Kelly Lyndgaard almost skipped a church talk because she thought it was about addiction, and she believed addiction was just a run of bad choices. She went anyway. She heard a woman named Emily describe a journey that started at eight years old. Kelly walked out understanding that addiction is a story of pain, not a story of substance.<a class="button primary" href="https://overdosepreventioninitiative.substack.com/p/brave-recovery-episode-2-opportunity?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=em
Brave Recovery: Episode 1: “Recovery Is My Second Birthday” Featuring Anna Mable-Jones (opens the original)
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Anna Mable-Jones surrendered on August 30, 1999. That date is also her birthday. So every year she gets to celebrate her birth and her rebirth on the same day, and she has now done it 27 times.Anna is a woman in long-term recovery and a community liaison with Community Bridges, the nonprofit that runs the DC Stabilization Center, providing integrated addiction treatment and behavioral health care in Washington, D.C. She went back to school. She has been married 23 years. She lost two brothers to
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