Devorah Leah Andrusier Part 1: Overcoming Addictions in the Jewish Community

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overcome their battle with different types of addictions this is really really such important and life-changing work thank you so much for being here please tell us more about yourself and what you do well personally I just want to say that I'm honored and humbled to be here and specifically talking about this subject that I I believe and know to be so important so how I got into all of this was um a couple years ago well firstly I'm divorce Andrews yay divorce Andrews yay um my husband is Yankee andrewsie mother of seven granddaughter or grandmother four beautiful grandchildren so thank god um I live in Bell Harbor Florida and um thank God life is good with all the challenges um so how I got into this to begin with was a couple years back it was it became very prevalent in the Jewish community and in the Orthodox Jewish Community a lot of kids lot of kids young adults were dying of overdoses some purposely and some accidentally but all deeply suffering and in a lot of pain and what I was seeing is that everybody was talking about this right shabba's table this is the Food For Thought let's talk about this I'm like how could this be happening what's going on and after a couple weeks of sitting at chabas tables and having conversations like these I became very frustrated with

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1. 0:31overcome their battle with different types of addictions this is really really such important and life-changing…
2. 3:36really hoping with your help that we're going to really Reach people and help them either…
3. 6:40we really need to do because so often people who are addicts um they go in…
4. 10:12experiencing they have some peace from what they were experiencing before also statistically um if you…
5. 13:14um talk therapy works if it's alcohol it depends on the extent of it a lot…
6. 16:49do it so what we try to teach them is relapse is something to expect relapse…
7. 19:54in addition to working with the addicts someone who's truly trying to help this family will…
8. 22:58unfortunately this the situation is not good so Narcan saves lives I have one in my…
9. 26:38about everything there should be no subject that is taboo for us to have with our…
10. 29:41it it's it is tricky to pick up signs but I would say anything that deviates…

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