Society often assumes that drug addicts benefit from prison? Can prison help people recover from substance misuse? Or does prison make recovering from an addiction harder? What happens when drugs are decriminalised? What kind of services and laws are developed when people with lived experience are involved in their creation? Would there be less addiction if we were more compassionate towards people addicted to drugs?
In this episode, Morgan Godvin shares her inspirational story. Morgan serves as a commissioner on the Oregon Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission. She is in long term recovery and spent four years in prison following the death of her close friend from an overdose. She is a passionate advocate for drug, and penal reform. She is powerful in describing the difficult times she has experienced but optimimistic that change could be on the way. The inspirational book she suggests is Righteous Dopefiend (California Series in Public Anthropology): 21 by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg:
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