Episode #34 - Guest: Brian Hallam - Arguments For Safe Injection Sites, Strategies For Behaviour Change, Addressing Barriers To Accessing Healthcare, The Importance Of Empathy For Helping Drug Addicts

Between Sets

In this episode, we all drink artsy beer from Collective Arts Brewery while Brian talks to us about his current project, common barriers that stop at-risk individuals from accessing conventional healthcare, his goals with addressing these common barriers, what he is currently doing to support street-involved individuals with Hepatitis C, issues with our current healthcare system in Canada, how to support others to make healthy behaviour changes, fiscal arguments for making safe drug-use clinics more accessible, arguing for tax reform and a cashless society as it relates to the problem of drug addiction, misconceptions about conservative values, the opioid epidemic in North America, the importance of empathy, drug legalization vs decriminalization, his motivation for waking up at 5am to go running in minus 20 degree weather, his 2040 political platform, and we shoutout a friend of the show and past guest Tyler Ouwendyk!

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Brian Hallam Info:

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Tim Walcott Info:

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Tyler Paterson Info:

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