"Life Saving Medicine" with Kate Favata

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Warrior Spotlight: Meet Kate Favata, Community Relations Liaison

I grew up in a middle-class family about 10 minutes from CleanSlate’s Wilkes-Barre center. Growing up, my neighborhood seemed like the perfect suburban community. My parents didn’t lock their doors and loved their country and neighbors. The only reference to drug education we had was Nancy Reagan’s, “Just Say No” campaign and most people in my community thought that if people did just that, the drug problem would cease.

My parents and my friend’s parents only knew about heroin from the news reports they’d seen in the sixties, saying that their rock idols had died from overdoses. Little did they think there could be a heroin problem in their own community. My home of Northeast Pennsylvania, once known as “a valley with a heart,“ had in just a few years become nicknamed “a valley with a habit“ by local media. I don’t think anyone at the time could imagine how true that statement would become.

By the time the local government and medical community admitted that heroin was a problem, years had passed and resources were scarce. I was in college when I started using. It was the nineties, so I listened to bands like Nirvana, Jane’s Addiction and Alice in Chains, watched movies like “Trainspotting” and “The Basketball Diaries,” and in an attempt to be well-read, frequented books by Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Jack K

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Chapters

1. Introduction to today’s guest. (00:00:00)

2. Kate’s background. (00:06:45)

3. The hierarchy of drugs and addiction (00:13:31)

4. Hyperactivity component of addiction. (00:20:31)

5. How did you come to terms with your addiction? (00:28:31)

6. Methadone’s effect on addiction (00:32:31)

7. How do you fight the stigma of addiction? (00:40:31)

8. The difference between harm reduction and gay marriage. (00:46:31)

9. The sense of belonging and purpose in recovery. (00:52:31)

10. How law enforcement is changing. (00:59:31)

11. How to get involved. (01:01:31)