Community in Recovery

Authors

Rosie Cowart
DeSean Motley
Parker Yarborough

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Description

Duration: 8:46

Party culture and shame can obscure the need for support for college students in recovery from substance use. And the isolation of Covid does not help. Parker Yarborough: I am a junior at UAB majoring in an independently designed major that combines psychology with film, writing, and art. Originally, our film began as a film about the conditions of various rehab facilities, but due to some limitations with access we decided to change direction. We heard about the CRC while working on connections for our original idea, and we quickly realized that they would be a great subject for a film due to the challenges facing the recovery community. There is something really impactful about a community of people who, through being vulnerable with one another, find strength in one another. Things like stigma and pop culture present special challenges to them because of how tethered addiction and morality are to each other. I never realized the scope of the problem, but this film has been an opportunity to do so. I feel like every person, regardless of their relationship to addiction, can learn from those at the CRC.

Publication Date

2022

Publisher

UAB Ethnographic Filmmaking

City

Birmingham, AL

Disciplines

Film and Media Studies | Film Production

Comments

https://vimeo.com/704849352

Production Notes

Produced as part of the UAB Ethnographic Filmmaking class of 2022. All 2022 Ethnographic Films can be found on Vimeo here.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Cowart, Rosie; Motley, DeSean; and Yarborough, Parker, "Community in Recovery" (2022). Ethnographic Films. 185.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/ethnographic/185

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