Midwaste (2021)

Overview

An artful, autobiographical field report on the opioid epidemic by a clean addict in mid-life, living in the Midwest. She shares her drug history as an alphabet of drug friends and poetic titles to rewrite the redemption story—she wasn’t “bad” in active addiction and she’s not “good” now sober. Midwaste redirects the conversation to how drug policies and racism embedded in pharmacological treatment and biomedical addiction models really make us sick.