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Uprooting Addiction: Healing from the Ground Up
Directed by Tory Estern Jadow; Produced by Hope Payson; Executive Producer Edie Dao Schechter 65 minutes, color, 2021
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An urgent look at the national drug addiction crisis that is ravaging local communities, Uprooting Addiction follows six diverse people, each affected by childhood trauma, who candidly share their personal stories of addiction and recovery. Interweaving these stories with uplifting, up-to-the-minute accounts of collective action in the face of an unrelenting public health crisis – from an equally diverse group of activists, officials, volunteers, and experts – Uprooting Addiction is a mosaic-like portrait of a single community coming together to take on one of the most critical challenges of our time. Watch the Trailer Reviews "Director Tory Estern Jadow didn’t have to go far to see how the deadly opioid epidemic is affecting our country – her own backyard of Northwest Connecticut is a community besieged by the ravages of addiction. Jadow’s film thoughtfully explores how that community is changing the narrative by connecting the link between trauma and addition through a unique method founded by the film’s producer, addiction and trauma counselor Hope Payson." -Disc Dish Links Press Release with Filmmaker's Statement
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