Compassionate Action: An Anti-Stigma Campaign

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Source

"Compassionate Action: An Anti-Stigma Campaign" YouTube Playlist:
Campaign webpage:
https://towardtheheart.com/peer2peer-project (scroll to the bottom of the page for anti-stigma campaign description)

Description

A series of dramatizations, focusing on the importance of showing compassion to people with lived or living experience of susbtance use. Of note, many of the actors in the videos were people with lived and living experience (PWLLEs). These videos shine a light on personal experiences of PWLLEs and frontline service providers as they were stigmatized by their peers, employers, and other primary care providers. Other issues described include how different drugs have varying degrees of social acceptability/stigmatization and how stigma can produce inequities in treatment between different workers in the same work places (e.g. harm reduction sites).

Date

"Compassionate Action: An Anti-Stigma Campaign" videos: 2020-08-13

Language

English

Coverage

County/Regional

Duration

"People Who Use Substances and Employment" 0:03:05
"Peer Workers - Interactions with Other Professionals" 0:02:12
"People Who Use Drugs and Primary Care" 0:02:39
"Hierarchies of Perceived Acceptable Substances and Modes of Ingestion" 0:03:28
"Inequity Faced by Peers/Experiential Workers in the Workplace" 0:02:35

Location

British Columbia

Transcription

Hierarchies of Perceived Acceptable Substances and Modes of Ingestion:

Time Code

Speaker

     Audio

Video

00:00:11

Extreme close up of Amber in bed, eyes open and holding back tears. She quietly pulls back the covers and gets out of bed, revealing the back of a man next to her in the bed. He is not wearing a shirt. The man rolls over slightly. We find out this man is Amber’s father.

00:00:37

Dad

Where are you going?

00:00:40

Amber

I’m just going to the bathroom, Dad.

The camera remains on the dad in bed. We do not see Amber when she replies.

00:00:46

Amber stands in front of the bathroom mirror. She quickly stuffs her things into a backpack and zips it closed. She puts on a hoodie then slings the backpack over her shoulder. She exits the bathroom.

00:01:13

Extreme close up of Amber looking to her right.

00:01:16

We see who Amber is looking at: her mother in a robe sitting on the couch and holding a mug. Amber walks away, while her mother continues to look in her direction.

Citation

Peer2Peer (BCCDC/Toward The Heart), “Compassionate Action: An Anti-Stigma Campaign,” Anti-Stigma Archive, accessed October 14, 2025, https://antistigma.info/items/show/88.