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Smashing Stigmas: VEEMAH's Co-Founders specialize in providing therapy for immigrants and people of color.
https://www.minnesotaalumni.org/stories/smashing-stigmas
University of Minnesota Alumni Magazine
Profile: The remarkable journey of how a selfless act of volunteering helped Edwin N. Swaray to heal and led him to self-discovery and a new sense of purpose.
Addiction Studies Program Provides Sense of Purpose
by Colin Sokolowski
In a crisis, schools are 100,000 mental health staff short. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/31/mental-health-crisis-students-have-third-therapists-they-need/
Washington Post, August 31, 2023
988 calls, texts for mental health help in Minnesota spike in year one.
Axios Twin Cities, August 1, 2023
U of M Study Examines TikTok’s Impact on Mental Health.
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, August 23, 2023
Mental Health by the Numbers.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Addiction by the Numbers.
https://drughelpline.org/addiction-statistics/
National Drug Helpline
Archive Stories and Webinars by Edwin N. Swaray
What’s Love Got to do with Racial Healing?
https://episcopalmn.org/blog/community-stories/lenten-reflection-3-edwin-n-swaray
by Edwin N. Swaray
Reflections on the Murder of George Floyd. https://www.vinlandcenter.org/reflections-on-the-murder-of-george-floyd/
by Edwin N. Swaray
The George Floyd Murder Trial: Challenges and Opportunities for Behavioral Health Providers.
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.marrch.org/resource/resmgr/files/GeorgeFloydMurderTrial-colum.pdf
by Edwin N. Swaray
African Immigrant Rebuts Trump's 'S-hole' Reference
by Edwin N. Swaray
https://www.funtimesmagazine.com/2018/03/07/322693/african-immigrant-rebuts-trumps-s-hole-reference
by Edwin N. Swaray
Archived Stories from The Minnesota Daily, a student-led media organization serving the University of Minnesota campus and the surrounding community.
https://mndaily.com/staff_name/ed-swaray/
Harm in Behavioral Health: The Ethical Necessity for Multicultural Practices in Behavioral Health Programs.
At the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) - www.rcorp-ta.org - Edwin N. Swaray discussed the ethical necessity to decrease racism and increase equity in our workplaces as well as increase cultural awareness and multicultural counseling and therapy practices.
Learning Objectives
· Explore the American Psychological Association’s (APA) contributions to the belief in racial hierarchy and perpetuation of inequality for people of color in the United States.
· Review the basics of healthcare ethics and how they can be applied to racism and diversity issues.
· Explore the impact of systemic racism on the ability to provide effective SUD treatment both from the patient and staff perspectives.
· Explore the Case for Multicultural Counseling and Therapy (MCT).
Teen Suicide Prevention: What to Say and What Not To Say .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BByqa7bhto
Mayo Clinic
Addiction Neuroscience 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwZcPwlRRcc
R. Corey Waller MD, MS DFASAM
Tranq: The Zombie Effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRj3Sa-Q41A
PIX11 News
Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D
The Addictive Mind.
Colors of Recovery Video & Podcast Series.
https://www.naatp.org/resources/dei/colors-of-recovery
Heart Of The Matter.
https://drugfree.org/elizabeth-vargas-podcast/
A Podcast Hosted by Elizabeth Vargas
A Star Is Born (2018)
Melodrama sometimes gets a bad rap, one it doesn't inherently deserve. Something of a spiritual successor to the great pictures of Douglas Sirk—glossy on the outside, and profound the deeper you dig—Bradley Cooper's remake of—well—three movies, centers on a fading rock star (Cooper) who's a depressed mess, and a rising pop star (Lady Gaga) he becomes involved with.
Krisha (2016)
Trey Edward Shults made his debut feature on a shoestring budget in his parents’ home, using his family as actors. Krisha tells the story of a troubled alcoholic who seeks to make amends with her family over Thanksgiving. Inventively using stylistic choices of horror cinema to heighten the drama, Krisha is a tiny movie that will knock you flat. At its heart, this gut-punch of an indie is about family.
Flight (2012)
A titanic turn by Denzel Washington and gripping, ambitious direction from Robert Zemeckis drive this viscerally affecting dramatic thriller. Washington plays Whip Whitaker, an alcoholic airline pilot who's investigated following a near-disaster in the sky. The ending of Flight ties things up in too neat of a bow. It would have been more effective to cut immediately after Whip starts telling the truth, in court. Other than that, this is a virtually perfect piece of work, and a must-see.
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
One of Meg Ryan's all-time great performances is front-and-center in this romantic drama about a wife and mother whose problem drinking leads her to rehab. Co-starring Andy Garcia, When a Man Loves a Woman examines alcoholism as a family disease, and the issue of enabling. Ryan received a SAG nomination for Best Actress for her work here.
28 Days (2000)
Directed by Betty Thomas, this drama stars Sandra Bullock as a newspaper columnist who enters treatment after ruining her sister's wedding in spectacularly disastrous fashion. 28 Days could cut deeper for sure, but the performances are quite good, and the film is so entertaining and accessible that it's become a staple for counselors and patients alike. Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins and Steve Buscemi round out the supporting cast.
Uncut Gems (2019)
Adam Sandler was, frankly, robbed of an Academy Award nomination for this. The oft-critically-maligned megastar delivers his best performance to date, as towering presence Howard Ratner, in Ben Safdie and Josh Safdie's riveting crime caper about a compulsive gambler who puts everything on the bet of a lifetime. Idina Menzel delivers a killer supporting turn as Howard's long-suffering wife. Masterful Uncut Gems is so suspenseful and high-stakes it might give you a nervous breakdown; it is essentially a two hours-plus anxiety attack. At its heart, this is a picture about an addiction; Howard cannot, will not stop until he's ruined everyone's lives, and until he is stopped. The hat trick of Sandler's performance is making this disaster of a man just barely sympathetic enough to make the story register as great tragedy.
Ray (2004)
Jamie Foxx won a Best Actor Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG Award, BAFTA and Critics' Choice Award for his portrayal of R&B legend Ray Charles in Taylor Hackford's musical biopic. Charles struggled with heroin addiction for nearly two decades, before successfully kicking the habit in the 1960s.
Ben Is Back (2018)
Peter Hedges' drama stars son Lucas Hedges as an addicted teen who shows up at home unexpectedly for the holidays; Julia Roberts plays his mother. The plot of Ben Is Back is too convenient at times, contrived, but individual moments and truth bombs make it worth watching. The best part is Roberts, explosively great here as a nerve-fried mother who will do anything to save her son—and must face the inevitable truth that she cannot. So many parents who've been through this struggle will find much truth in this ripper of a performance.
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Alcoholic torture is the name of the game in Mike Figgis' devastating account of a suicidal drunk who moves to Sin City to die after losing his family and his job. Nicolas Cage won an Oscar for Best Actor, and Elizabeth Shue received a Best Actress nod.
by Samuel R. Murrian, Parade. For Samuel's complete list of the 30 best movies about addiction, click on the link: https://parade.com/707506/samuelmurrian/best-movies-about-addiction-alcoholism-recovery/
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