Shows
Little AddictsEp 5 - Understanding Addiction: ‘When Likes Turn to Wants and Wants Turn to Needs’ with Andrew Hopgood. This week I'm joined by Andrew Hopgood. Andrew has been a Senior Clinician in rehabs throughout Wellington in the DHB and Private sector, setting up and running programmes focused on the hard-to-reach. He helped set up community projects using volunteers with lived experience and was recently involved with the Kahukura rehabilitation programme for the Mongrel Mob. Andrew is a lecturer on WelTec's Bachelor of Counselling and Addictions program. In this episode, Andrew shares his journey with trauma and addiction, his work with ‘the unreachables’ (gang members and their whanau), intergenerational trauma and why...2024-08-201h 01