From Connection to Recovery: Why an Addict Alone is in Bad Company
Grayson Bartels is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh working on his thesis which looks at how people in prison recover from Substance Use Disorder (SUD). In this episode of Just Humans we talk about Grayson’s own struggle with addiction to narcotics, the emotional cost of this kind of research and why he thinks connection is the essential ingredient to recovery. This episode includes a clip taken from Johann Hari’s Ted Talk, ‘Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong’ which is available on YouTube https://youtu.be/PY9DcIMGxMs If you have been affected by this podcast and would like help and information please visit this website Support for people affected by drugs | NHS inform Hosted/Produced/Edited by Rachelle Cobain, Communications Officer at SCCJR Follow us on Twitter via: @RachelleCobain @gray_bartels Music: ‘Rewind’ by Donna Maciocia and Sean H available to download from the Distant Voices EP ‘Looking at Colours Again’. Visit the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research website: www.sccjr.ac.uk and follow @TheSCCJR on Twitter & Instagram