Roadmap to Recovery: Podcast
Tune in as reporter Sunny Stranks shares her experience reporting the Roadmap To Recovery series.
Roadmap to Recovery is a journalism series rooted in research and local voices, created in partnership with masters of human rights and social justice student Sunny Stranks at Thompson Rivers University. The series compiles resources and information for people seeking addiction treatment in Kamloops while exploring what barriers people might face when reaching out for help.
Tune in as reporter Sunny Stranks shares her experience reporting the Roadmap To Recovery series.
‘There's no roadmap to recovery,’ says one recovery advocate, but more information can make the process easier.
‘There's no roadmap to recovery,’ says one recovery advocate, but more information can make the process easier.
'A lot of the time, people are not successful the first time around. It's just the way it is,' says the director of Kamloops' Blue House Recovery.
Many assumptions about people who use drugs are inaccurate and harmful, addictions service providers say.
Claim: ‘If people refuse to go to rehab, we should force them to go.’ The Wren reports.
Claim: People struggling on the streets in Kamloops aren’t ‘from here.’ The Wren reports.
Claim: Harm reduction — such as safe consumption sites and safer supply — enables addiction and does not solve the root problem. The Wren reports.
Front-line workers and residents suggest unique solutions to the toxic drug crisis. The Wren took a community research approach to finding answers.
Moms Stop the Harm, Street College students and North Shore business owners taught me that while recovery is complicated, solutions are possible.