WEBVTT 00:00.800 --> 00:01.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: FOR THE LAST FEW 00:01.700 --> 00:02.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WEEKS WE'VE BEEN BRINGING YOU 00:02.800 --> 00:04.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PERSONAL STORIES FROM MEMBERS OF 00:04.400 --> 00:05.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COMMUNITIES IN CANADA'S 00:05.500 --> 00:06.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NORTHWEST TERRITORY OF 00:06.766 --> 00:07.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YELLOWKNIFE. 00:07.933 --> 00:09.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE STORIES, WHICH ADDRESS THE 00:09.266 --> 00:10.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DIFFICULT TOPIC OF ALCOHOL 00:10.900 --> 00:12.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ABUSE, ARE PART OF AN 00:12.400 --> 00:13.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EMPOWERMENT JOURNALISM SERIES 00:13.966 --> 00:15.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CALLED "TURNING POINTS," DONE IN 00:15.700 --> 00:16.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GLOBAL 00:16.933 --> 00:18.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REPORTING CENTER. 00:18.233 --> 00:19.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TODAY WE HEAR FROM DEVIN 00:19.633 --> 00:21.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HINCHEY, WHO IS METIS, OR OF 00:21.866 --> 00:23.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MIXED INDIGENOUS AND EUROPEAN 00:23.600 --> 00:26.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ANCESTRY, ABOUT HIS ROAD FROM 00:26.133 --> 00:32.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ADDICTION TO RECOVERY. 00:32.066 --> 00:35.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THERE'S NO TYPICAL ALCOHOLIC 00:35.533 --> 00:36.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OR ADDICT. 00:36.333 --> 00:37.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT DOESN'T MATTER, YOU KNOW, 00:37.866 --> 00:39.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOUR ETHNICITY, WHERE YOU COME 00:39.033 --> 00:40.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FROM, THE LIFE THAT YOU'VE 00:40.100 --> 00:41.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIVED. 00:41.566 --> 00:42.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I HAD A PRETTY DECENT 00:42.366 --> 00:43.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UPBRINGING. 00:43.233 --> 00:45.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I DIDN'T HAVE CRAZY, CRAZY STUFF 00:45.300 --> 00:46.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAPPEN TO ME LIKE A LOT OF MY 00:46.666 --> 00:48.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FRIENDS HAVE LIVED THROUGH, AND 00:48.400 --> 00:51.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I STILL ENCOUNTERED THE SAME 00:51.000 --> 00:53.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ISSUES WITH DRUGS AND ALCOHOL. 00:53.100 --> 00:55.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHEN I LEFT YELLOWKNIFE I WENT 00:55.266 --> 00:57.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO A HIGH SCHOOL WHERE THERE WAS 00:57.266 --> 01:00.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REALLY NO SUPERVISION AND, FOR 01:00.133 --> 01:02.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ME, ALREADY KIND OF 01:02.300 --> 01:03.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EXPERIENCING, LIKE, SOME 01:03.666 --> 01:04.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DEPRESSIVE THOUGHTS. 01:04.866 --> 01:06.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EVERY NIGHT I'D COME HOME FROM 01:06.166 --> 01:08.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SCHOOL I KNEW THAT I COULD SMOKE 01:08.500 --> 01:09.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WEED OR DRINK AND I'D FEEL 01:09.900 --> 01:14.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BETTER. 01:14.466 --> 01:17.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% COME ON! 01:17.700 --> 01:19.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> I THINK I REALLY NOTICED A 01:19.933 --> 01:23.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHANGE, IT PROBABLY WASN'T 'TIL 01:23.500 --> 01:25.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE END OF GRADE 12. 01:25.933 --> 01:27.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WE HAD ONE NIGHT WHERE YOU GOT 01:27.966 --> 01:30.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRASHED AND YOU HIT ME AND, AND 01:30.366 --> 01:31.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I THINK THAT'S WHEN IT REALLY 01:31.766 --> 01:33.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CLICKED INTO ME THAT THERE WAS 01:33.533 --> 01:35.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON. 01:35.966 --> 01:38.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> IN THE MIDDLE OF, LIKE, A 01:38.300 --> 01:40.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REALLY DARK ADDICTION, IT'S 01:40.300 --> 01:43.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY EXACTLY 01:43.066 --> 01:45.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT'S GOING ON WHILE IT'S GOING 01:45.033 --> 01:46.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ON, BUT I THINK TY WAS THE 01:46.566 --> 01:48.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CLOSEST PERSON I GOT TO SAYING 01:48.533 --> 01:50.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT, AND BASICALLY TO GET BACK, 01:50.400 --> 01:51.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "WHATEVER YOU NEED," OR, LIKE, 01:51.833 --> 01:53.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "WHATEVER YOU DO, I'M THERE FOR 01:53.166 --> 01:54.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU." 01:54.933 --> 01:56.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THEN I WENT TO UNIVERSITY 01:56.733 --> 01:58.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND THE FIRST HARD DRUG THAT I 01:58.933 --> 02:00.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TRIED WAS ECSTASY, IT WAS 02:00.100 --> 02:01.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% M.D.M.A. 02:01.133 --> 02:03.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND FROM THERE, IT WAS HONESTLY 02:03.066 --> 02:04.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% KIND OF LIKE THE FLOODGATES 02:04.266 --> 02:05.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OPENED. 02:05.166 --> 02:07.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BY NOVEMBER OF MY FIRST 02:07.766 --> 02:10.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SEMESTER, I WAS USING SOMETHING 02:10.500 --> 02:11.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% EVERY DAY. 02:11.566 --> 02:14.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I STARTED DEVELOPING, UH, LIKE 02:14.133 --> 02:15.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THESE REALLY DARK, KIND OF 02:15.600 --> 02:17.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIFE-ENDING THOUGHTS. 02:17.866 --> 02:19.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND I REMEMBER NEAR THE END OF 02:19.033 --> 02:21.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT YEAR, I WAS REALLY HIGH ON 02:21.200 --> 02:23.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% M.D.M.A. AND I REMEMBER BEING IN 02:23.033 --> 02:25.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% A CAB AND LOOKING OUTSIDE OF THE 02:25.600 --> 02:28.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WINDOWS AND THE STREETLIGHTS 02:28.166 --> 02:29.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WERE ALMOST, LIKE, STRETCHING 02:29.466 --> 02:30.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% OUT. 02:30.600 --> 02:31.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIKE, I JUST KIND OF STOPPED 02:31.800 --> 02:32.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FEELING MY HEART BEATING. 02:32.933 --> 02:34.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIKE, I COULDN'T FEEL, DIDN'T 02:34.433 --> 02:35.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HAVE A LOT OF FEELING IN MY 02:35.233 --> 02:36.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHEST. 02:36.500 --> 02:37.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND I REMEMBER THINKING, LIKE, 02:37.366 --> 02:38.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "I AM OVERDOSING RIGHT NOW." 02:38.733 --> 02:39.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIKE, "I AM OVERDOSING ON 02:39.700 --> 02:41.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% M.D.M.A. AND I'M PROBABLY GOING 02:41.066 --> 02:41.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TO DIE." 02:41.966 --> 02:43.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT WAS WHEN IT GOT REALLY, 02:43.400 --> 02:48.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REALLY REAL. 02:48.966 --> 02:50.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> I'M GLAD THAT YOU REACHED OUT 02:50.200 --> 02:52.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND I'M VERY GLAD THAT, THAT IT, 02:52.766 --> 02:54.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT WASN'’’T TOO LATE. 02:54.533 --> 02:55.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME I 02:55.433 --> 02:56.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FELT COMFORTABLE. 02:56.400 --> 02:57.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, I'M NOT ALONE AND I'M 02:57.533 --> 02:58.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NOT CRAZY. 02:58.733 --> 03:00.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'’’M NOT INSANE. 03:00.000 --> 03:01.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND I'M GOING TO BE AT LEAST 03:01.366 --> 03:03.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ACCEPTED BY SOMEONE IF I GET 03:03.966 --> 03:05.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HELP WITH THIS. 03:05.766 --> 03:08.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHEN I WENT TO TREATMENT, IT WAS 03:08.100 --> 03:10.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% REALLY FRUSTRATING AT TIMES. 03:10.033 --> 03:11.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'M 19, I JUST FAILED OUT OF 03:11.333 --> 03:12.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SCHOOL. 03:12.166 --> 03:14.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'VE SPENT A, A TON OF MONEY 03:14.566 --> 03:15.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT WASN'’’T MINE. 03:15.633 --> 03:17.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% STOLE MONEY TO FUND THIS 03:17.366 --> 03:18.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ADDICTION. 03:18.133 --> 03:19.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHY COULDN'’’T I JUST STOP? 03:19.333 --> 03:20.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIKE, THAT WAS A LOT OF MY 03:20.866 --> 03:21.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THOUGHTS. 03:21.633 --> 03:22.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIKE, "WHY COULDN'T I STOP?" 03:22.700 --> 03:24.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SO, TREATMENT WAS REALLY GOOD 03:24.066 --> 03:25.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FOR LEARNING THAT ADDICTION AND 03:25.866 --> 03:27.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ALCOHOLISM ARE DISEASES. 03:27.733 --> 03:29.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND, LIKE, THE WORD THAT'S USED 03:29.866 --> 03:31.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DAILY IS, LIKE, POWERLESSNESS. 03:31.800 --> 03:33.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I HAD NO POWER OVER MY 03:33.833 --> 03:39.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ALCOHOLISM, OVER MY ADDICTION. 03:39.266 --> 03:40.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I THINK THE BIGGEST PART FOR ME, 03:40.500 --> 03:42.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THOUGH, WAS COMING BACK FROM 03:42.600 --> 03:45.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TREATMENT, YOUR RESPONSE WAS 03:45.500 --> 03:47.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIKE, "WHAT ARE YOU COMFORTABLE 03:47.033 --> 03:47.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WITH? 03:47.700 --> 03:48.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHAT CAN I DO? 03:48.666 --> 03:50.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHERE CAN'T WE GO?" 03:50.000 --> 03:52.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND-- 03:52.266 --> 03:53.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> THE LIMITS. 03:53.600 --> 03:54.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> YEAH. 03:54.466 --> 03:55.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> WHAT, WHAT WAS GOING TO SET 03:55.700 --> 03:58.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU BACK OR WHAT I COULD DO TO 03:58.600 --> 04:00.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HELP YOU MOVE FORWARD. 04:00.200 --> 04:03.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT'S HELPED ME, UM, UNDERSTAND 04:03.800 --> 04:06.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT WHAT I SEE ISN'T THE WHOLE 04:06.166 --> 04:07.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PICTURE. 04:07.266 --> 04:08.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIKE, THERE'S, THERE'S MORE TO 04:08.566 --> 04:10.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT THAN WHAT PEOPLE ARE SHOWING 04:10.433 --> 04:11.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU. 04:11.333 --> 04:12.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I THINK IT MADE ME A BETTER 04:12.200 --> 04:13.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% FRIEND. 04:13.066 --> 04:13.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT MADE OUR FRIENDSHIP STRONGER, 04:13.933 --> 04:16.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT'’’S FOR SURE. 04:16.233 --> 04:17.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% >> JUST BECAUSE I'M SOBER OR 04:17.666 --> 04:19.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% BECAUSE SOMEONE IS SOBER DOESN'T 04:19.100 --> 04:21.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO COMPLETELY 04:21.100 --> 04:23.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHANGE. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ALL RIGHT, YOU READY? 04:24.100 --> 04:25.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHEN I GOT OUT OF TREATMENT, WE 04:25.833 --> 04:26.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WERE TEXTING ABOUT MATCHING 04:26.833 --> 04:27.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% TATTOOS. 04:27.700 --> 04:28.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I THINK IT STARTED OUT HALF AS A 04:28.866 --> 04:31.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% JOKE AND YOU SUGGESTED THE 04:31.066 --> 04:32.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% INUKSUK. 04:32.366 --> 04:33.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IN THE PAST TWO YEARS OF MY 04:33.800 --> 04:36.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LIFE, I'VE HAD MORE FUN BEING 04:36.300 --> 04:39.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SOBER THAN I DID EVER. 04:39.033 --> 04:41.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WELL, I JUST FINISHED, UH, MY 04:41.866 --> 04:43.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% UNIVERSITY DIPLOMA, WHICH IS 04:43.666 --> 04:44.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HONESTLY SOMETHING I NEVER 04:44.833 --> 04:45.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THOUGHT I WOULD SAY. 04:45.966 --> 04:47.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND NOW THAT I HAVE THAT, MY 04:47.266 --> 04:48.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% NEXT STEP IS GOING TO BE 04:48.300 --> 04:49.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PURSUING A CAREER IN SOCIAL 04:49.366 --> 04:51.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WORK, AND WORKING WITH PEOPLE 04:51.033 --> 04:52.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND JUST TRYING TO HELP WHOEVER 04:52.566 --> 04:55.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND WHATEVER I CAN. 04:55.033 --> 04:58.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'VE LIVED IN NANAIMO, TORONTO, 04:58.066 --> 05:00.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% LONDON, AND YELLOWKNIFE AND 05:00.566 --> 05:02.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YELLOWKNIFE IS A LOT DIFFERENT, 05:02.066 --> 05:03.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ESPECIALLY REGARDING DRUGS AND 05:03.066 --> 05:04.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% ALCOHOL. 05:04.066 --> 05:07.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT'S SO EASY UP HERE TO GO DOWN 05:07.066 --> 05:08.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THE RABBIT HOLE. 05:08.000 --> 05:09.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% PEOPLE REACT TO DRUG USE 05:09.633 --> 05:11.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% DIFFERENTLY UP HERE. 05:11.733 --> 05:13.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT'S KNOWN THAT IT'S A PROBLEM 05:13.766 --> 05:14.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND IT'S, LIKE, ACCEPTED THAT 05:14.933 --> 05:17.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IT'S A PROBLEM, BUT I FEEL LIKE 05:17.233 --> 05:19.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THERE'S A STIGMA AROUND SOBRIETY 05:19.833 --> 05:22.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% AND RECOVERY. 05:22.333 --> 05:24.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% YOU KNOW, WHEN I SPOKE OUT ABOUT 05:24.100 --> 05:25.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% MY STORY, I HAD PEOPLE IN THE 05:25.666 --> 05:26.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% RECOVERY COMMUNITY TELLING ME IT 05:26.800 --> 05:28.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WAS A BAD IDEA, LIKE, I 05:28.300 --> 05:29.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SHOULDN'T DO THAT, I SHOULDN'T 05:29.433 --> 05:30.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% SPEAK ABOUT THAT. 05:30.533 --> 05:31.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% IF THERE'S ONE PERSON WHO CAN 05:31.700 --> 05:33.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% HEAR SOMEONE SHARE A STORY AND 05:33.400 --> 05:35.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT URGES THEM TO REACH OUT, 05:35.533 --> 05:38.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% WHY IS THAT NOT OKAY? 05:38.033 --> 05:39.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK LIKE I 05:39.366 --> 05:40.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS TO HOW TO 05:40.800 --> 05:42.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% CHANGE THAT, BUT IT'S SOMETHING 05:42.733 --> 05:44.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED AND 05:44.100 --> 05:44.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% THAT CAN BE CHANGED.