Tipping The Pain Scale
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Explain the power of story and lived experiences to impact cultural and policy change.
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Describe the experience and perspective of people in long-term recovery from substance use far removed from clinical treatment to their clinical interactions.
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Explain the intersection of a variety of services on a continuum, including harm reduction, early intervention, and recovery supports and to incorporate these supports into their clinical treatment offerings.
Educational Goal
Participants will gain increased competency in treating addiction.
Description
TIPPING THE PAIN SCALE is the hopeful story of six remarkable Americans – including an NFL star and White House cabinet member — demonstrating to the world how we can change for good, and begin healing our communities, one person at a time. It is an immersive experience changing how Americans view our country’s substance use failures and highlighting a path toward hope and healing, as told through compassionate and inspiring featured subjects. This award-winning feature film is a story about America’s decades-long deep, systemic failures and six high-profile individuals carrying hope and healing our country’s opioid and addiction crisis through positive, compassionate, and life-saving examples.
“The real story is: America’s emotional pain crisis has always been leading to a drug crisis.”
– Dr. Nzinga Harrison
“Stigma and judgment are keeping people with the disease of addiction from getting the help they need. This, in my opinion, is killing more people than overdoses.”
-Jerome Adams, former U.S. Surgeon General
Target Audience
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Jeff Reilly brings 20 years of experience as an editor, writer, and filmmaker. He has received 2 Emmy awards – Outstanding Editing and Outstanding Documentary Series, and a PRISM Award for Outstanding Documentary. His work has screened theatrically, including Diane, Generation Found, Trial By Fire, and The Anonymous People, as well as on network television, including McEnroe/Borg (HBO), Believeland (ESPN), & Rand University (ESPN). His work has also aired on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, EPIX, A&E, History, Discovery, Travel Channel, and WeTV.
Greg Williams and Jeff Reilly are the award-winning filmmakers of feature-length documentaries THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE, TIPPING THE PAIN SCALE, and GENERATION FOUND.
Greg has over a decade of experience working with non-profits and government agencies on addiction. As a person in long-term recovery from addiction, Greg’s work has been dedicated to creating positive changes in access to quality health care and recovery support for over 40 million Americans with a substance use disorder. Greg received his master’s degree in addiction public policy and media production from New York University.
In 2015, he produced the historic UNITE TO FACE ADDICTION RALLY on the National Mall when tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered to end the silence surrounding addiction. This was the first time major musicians, politicians, actors, athletes, models, journalists, authors, and advocates joined together to solve our time’s most urgent health crisis. The event was memorialized in a PBS special, THE CONCERT TO FACE ADDICTION, that Greg produced. He also produced the launch
event and companion TV special for the release of the first-ever Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health, LISTEN: FACING ADDICTION IN AMERICA when Viacom aired the special simultaneously on 11 of its cable networks, which millions saw. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter, ABC World News, LA Times, and other major media outlets.