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Anonymous People

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Greg Williams, MA , Producer, 4th Dimension Productions, LLC, Danbury, CT
THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE is a feature documentary film about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Deeply entrenched social stigma and discrimination have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum created by this silence has been filled by sensational mass media depictions of people in active addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid public fascination with the dysfunctional side of what is a preventable and treatable health condition. Just like women with breast cancer, or people with HIV/AIDS, courageous addiction recovery advocates are starting to come out of the shadows to tell their true stories. The moving story of The Anonymous People is told through the faces and voices of the leaders, volunteers, corporate executives, and celebrities who are laying it all on the line to save the lives of others just like them. This passionate new public recovery movement is fueling a changing conversation that aims to transform public opinion, and finally shift problematic policy toward lasting recovery solutions.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Chronic disease management and prevention
Communication and informatics
Other professions or practice related to public health
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the relationship between social stigma and effective public health interventions on addiction. Explain how people in recovery can become effective allies to public health practitioners. Demonstrate the emergence of a new recovery advocacy movement that will transform how alcohol and other drug addiction problems are dealt with in our communities.

Keyword(s): Advocacy for health and health education, Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), app

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Greg Williams is a communications specialist, and a health policy consultant. Greg’s work is dedicated towards creating positive changes in health system efficiency and quality. He works with non-profit and government agencies to create positive changes in substance use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery policies. Greg is an award winning documentary filmmaker, with a Bachelor’s degree in Media Production from Quinnipiac University and a Master’s degree from New York University.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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