Opiate & Heroin Addiction Focus of Mahwah Film and Panel Discussion on January 31st

Opiate and Heroin Addiction in Bergen County

Opiate and Heroin Addiction in Bergen County: Mahwah event to include film and panel discussion featuring substance abuse expert, young person in recovery, parent of an addict, and local law enforcement.

On January 31st, the Mahwah Municipal Alliance will present a viewing of the film Dying In Vein: The Opiate Generation, followed by a panel discussion. Dying in Vein is a deeply personal exploration of opiate and heroin addiction through a cinéma vérité style that drops you directly into the lives of an addict in recovery, a couple trying to get clean, a family grieving the loss of their son, and an emergency room physician trying to save one patient at a time. Through these stories, the film explores the contemporary belief of ‘living life pain free’, and the shame and blame that exists around addiction. The film looks at the impact of socioeconomic class on our broken treatment system, and how a group of emergency care physicians are working to save their patients.

Following the film, there will be a panel discussion and Q&A session which will include a substance abuse expert, young person in recovery, parent of an addict, and local law enforcement. Resource tables will also be available on site.

The event takes place on Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 6:30 pm at the Sharp Theatre, located on the campus of Ramapo College, 505 Ramapo Valley Road in Mahwah, New Jersey.
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