THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE is a feature documentary film about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Deeply entrenched social stigma and 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 addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid public fascination with the dysfunctional side of what is a preventable and treatable health condition.

Please view "The Anonymous People" and respond to the following questions.

You are to view the video "The Anonymous People" which can be viewed on Kanopy at:https://smccme.kanopy.com/video/anonymous-people

1. What do you think about the young people in the movie? Did they accurately depict the nature of the drug problem on the SMCC campus? Anything they didn't say that needs to be said?
2. Do you think schools and colleges should provide help for addiction and help in preventing addiction? If so, what might that help look like? If not, why not?
3. What do you think "being in addiction recovery" means?
4. Based on what you saw in the film, do you agree that addiction and recovery need to become more mainstream and portrayed in a more positive light, especially within the medical community and among the media? Is that possible and what would it take?