Film about long-term recovering alcoholics, drug addicts Saturday

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A local showing of the film “The Anonymous People,” a documentary about the 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addition, will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Sahara Club II, 2345 Youngstown Road SE.

Social stigma has kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades, leaving the mass media to fill the void with depictions of people with addictions that perpetuate a fascination with the dysfunctional side of a preventable and treatable health condition, according to the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board.

The documentary shows the emerging social-justice movement that hopes to end discrimination and move toward recovery-based solutions for substance abuse.