Jan 20, 2019
Mel joins Breht in-studio to discuss drugs, addiction, trauma,
and mental illness and their connections to the social conditions
which capitalism manifests and imposes upon us.
Topics discussed include childhood trauma, pharmaceutical companies
profiting off of addiction epidemics, the family unit under
capitalism, the limitations and failures of AA, Left organizing
around the issues of addiction, the necessary politicization of
mental illness, alienation, the complicated emotional landscape of
addiction in the family, the power of community, evolving as
social/communal animals, and much more!
Contact our guest Mel on Twitter @ColdBrewedTool
Outro Song: "Life is Ill" by sole, you can find and support his
music here: https://sole.bandcamp.com/track/life-is-ill
You can listen to sole's podcast, Solecast, here: https://www.soleone.org
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Intro music by Captain Planet. You can find and support his wonderful music here: https://djcaptainplanet.bandcamp.com
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