A screening of the documentary "Love in the Time of Fentanyl" is followed by panel discussion and Q&A. Part of the Mayors Wellness Campaign.
"Love in the Time of Fentanyl" is an intimate, observational look beyond the stigma of people who use drugs, revealing the courage of those facing tragedy in a neighborhood located in Vancouver, Canada, that has often been referred to as ground zero of the overdose crisis.
The film chronicles the lives of the workers and community members of the Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) —a renegade supervised drug consumption site that primarily employs active and former drug users. Its staff and volunteers save lives and give hope to a marginalized community as the overdose crisis rages throughout Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. With loved ones dying in unprecedented numbers, the staff at OPS does whatever it takes to save lives and find radical new ways out of the devastating but widely ignored crisis ravaging their community.
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Eric Alcera is chief medical officer and vice president of Carrier Clinic and Behavioral Health Chair of Hackensack Meridian Health’s Central Region. He recently has been named academic chair of psychiatry at John F. Kennedy Medical Center and section chief of psychiatry at Bayshore Medical Center. Dr. Alcera is double board-certified in general psychiatry and in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Additional panelists will include staff from the Carrier Clinic and the Princeton Health Department.
Part of Princeton's Mayors Wellness Campaign, focused this year on "harm reduction."
Please note: This film has a parental guidance rating of TV-MA and includes depictions of drug use.
