A compelling look into the complexity of herion users' lives
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“There's many ways Michelle Ransom-Hughes could have taken this series. She could've true-crimed it and presented all the gory details of heroin use. She could've created a sensational treatment that we find in so many romaticized drug stories. Or she could've taken a moralistic posture--drugs are bad and drug users are corrupt and suspect people. Few of us would have blinked at any of these because we've seen drug use, and heroin especially, presented in these ways. The drug and the people who use it are often just fodder for our own titualtion.
But Michelle took a different--and frankly more diffuclt--approach with Nobody Dies Here. We hear the voices of the people visit and work at Melborne's North Richmond Community Health’s Medically Supervised Injecting Room. Throughout the series we learn that people are more than their addiction--they can't be reduced to it. And we learn that the MSIR is a place of community where heroin is the node that connects users and staff. The drug isn't the sum of their relations.
I admit that I had many of the stereotypes about herion users. I've known a few in my life and I've watched each of them destory themselves. But Nobody Dies Here gives me a different narrative. Yes, there is nothing romantic about heroin addiction. It can kill you. But perhaps many of the reasons why we ascribe such shame to addicts is because there aren't places like the Richomnd MSIR, at least not in the United States. Perhaps if these people were given a place to safely tend to their addiction (and even seek treatment which the MSIR provides) maybe we can get beyond all the stereotypes Nobody Dies Here is trying to dispel.”Read full review »
Sean from Eurasian Knot via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/27/23
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“This series will reshape the way you think about addiction and harm reduction.”
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07/14/23
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“This is a sensitive and compelling audio portrait of staff and clients at the Melbourne Self Injecting Room. A must listen for anyone wondering what kinds of initiatives can actually make a difference in the fraught landscape of drug use and abuse.”
hambone24m8 via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
04/18/23
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“This series really opened my eyes to people’s realities and the variety of different people and stories are involved in these communities. Michelle’s journalistic skills are impeccable and I have recommended this to everyone and anyone, I can’t stop talking and thinking about it. It’s...”Read full review »
taygracet31 via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
07/25/23
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