CAF Plans to Host a Screening of The Anonymous People, Date TBD
- Ginny Lovitt
- Oct 7, 2013
- 1 min read
The Chris Atwood Foundation fully endorses and supports this incredible film, The Anonymous People, and its work towards destigmatizing the disease of addiction. We plan to sponsor a showing of this film in our area soon! Stay tuned for the date and ticket information. Please watch the trailer here.
THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE is a feature documentary film about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Deeply entrenched social stigma and discrimination combined with mass participation in widely successful anonymous 12-step groups have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum created by this silence has been filled by sensational mass media depictions of people in active addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid public fascination with the dysfunctional side of what is a preventable and treatable health condition. Just like women with breast cancer, or people with HIV/AIDS, courageous addiction recovery advocates are starting to come out of the shadows to tell their true stories. The moving story of The Anonymous People is told through the faces and voices of the leaders, volunteers, corporate executives, and celebrities who are laying it all on the line to save the lives of others just like them. This passionate new public recovery movement is fueling a changing conversation that aims to transform public opinion, and finally shift problematic policy toward lasting recovery solutions.
(Above synopsis taken from The Anonymous People website)
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