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Why the finger-pointing, why the judgments
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The Wisdom of Trauma

Why the finger-pointing, why the judgments on a particular group ofpeople who are addicted...

Why the finger-pointing, why the judgments on a particular group of
people who are addicted who happen to use substances?

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Why the finger-pointing, why the judgments
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on a particular group of people who are addicted
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who happen to use substances?
Duration
9 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:31:16
Uploaded
May 09, 2025
Genres
documentary
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1 in 5 Americans are diagnosed with mental illness every year. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24, and kills over 48,300 in the US and 800,000 people globally per year. Drug overdose ki...
My first job that I ever had as a physician in Vancouver - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:07
My first job that I ever had as a physician in Vancouver
It's North America's most concentrated - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:15
It's North America's most concentrated
And I go this old, broken down hotel - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:12
And I go this old, broken down hotel
And after two years, I shifted my full-time work - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:05
And after two years, I shifted my full-time work
They all had suffered tremendous torment as children, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:08
They all had suffered tremendous torment as children,
They were quite willing to sacrifice love, life, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:09
They were quite willing to sacrifice love, life,
They were that desperate to escape from reality - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:06
They were that desperate to escape from reality
That would give them abscesses, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:12
That would give them abscesses,
So they have to be hospitalized, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:07
So they have to be hospitalized,
But they were users, so there'd be - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:08
But they were users, so there'd be
So inevitably they would be kicked out of hospital, - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:07
So inevitably they would be kicked out of hospital,
I think I pushed him across an intersection once - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:05
I think I pushed him across an intersection once
And I said, well, I've been using morphine and m-eslon. - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:04
And I said, well, I've been using morphine and m-eslon.
- By meeting people where they're at - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:13
- By meeting people where they're at
- 'Cause they had come in like every four hours - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:05
- 'Cause they had come in like every four hours
And I woke up and there is like morphine all over the bed - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:06
And I woke up and there is like morphine all over the bed
(laughing) - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:09
(laughing)
Is there one that, you know, that you can recite now? - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:05
Is there one that, you know, that you can recite now?
It goes (clears throat) - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:06
It goes (clears throat)
I lose all control of my inner soul - The Wisdom of Trauma 00:05
I lose all control of my inner soul