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00:00The opioid crisis out here is worse.

00:04It's like jumping in from the pond to the fire.

00:08In 2021, 93% of deaths caused by overdose involved in opioid.

00:15There is such a high level of people that are mixing it with stuff,

00:20that people are fooled more than they think.

00:23When you're in the picture, you don't see the picture.

00:28Drug overdose death rates are increasing at an alarming rate

00:32among black and brown populations compared to the non-Hispanic white population.

00:45People are dying, and particularly for African Americans and Latinx,

00:50we're dying at very high rates due to the overdose crisis.

00:56The things that I notice most about fentanyl is now people actually look for fentanyl.

01:01They say the game don't change, only the people do.

01:05That's BS. The game just changed.

01:08Straight up and down, just changed.

01:10And they're introducing something that's a straight killer.

01:13I agree with Nina Simone when she said,

01:16an artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

01:20As a playwright, I found myself curious about what was happening in my community around 2019.

01:26I kept seeing posts on Facebook with,

01:30These were young people of color from New Haven, Connecticut,

01:33who were dying from illicit opioids.

01:35Many of the comments in the posts referred to fentanyl as the killer.

01:38So I did some research and wrote and produced a play,

01:40along with the support of Clifford Beer's clinic as an outreach effort.

01:43I reached out to the playwright,

01:45and we started discussions about how we could come up with a new film

01:50that really addressed a lot of the issues

01:53that the playwright had brought up in Matthew Rising,

01:56and create something that could be used as a resource

01:59in community settings, at schools,

02:02to really hit on those issues,

02:04and really put a spotlight on some of the struggles

02:07that the black and brown communities have

02:10when we're talking about mental health and trauma

02:13and poverty and addiction.

02:17And that's really the genesis of this documentary.

02:21We spoke with several individuals in Connecticut

02:23to gain deeper insight into some of the factors that led us here today.

02:27We went to New Haven, New London, Norwich, Meriden, and Harford

02:30to speak with people with lived experience,

02:33as well as New Haven EL doctors, professors, mental health providers,

02:36recovery coaches, city officials, and young adults

02:39who are surrounded by this crisis on a daily basis.

02:42As we started the project,

02:44I realized we needed to dial things back.

02:46We needed to go back to a time familiar to me

02:49when so many of our families were impacted by violence,

02:52illegal substances, and incarceration.

02:55We needed to break the silence on the streets.

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