Helping Drug Addicts for Real: Yuliya Georgieva at TEDxMladostWomen 2012
Helping Drug Addicts for Real: Yuliya Georgieva at TEDxMladostWomen 2012 – Yuliya Georgieva is an outreach worker in Initiative for Health Foundation in Bulgaria. She is an advocate for human rights and particularly – for rights of people using drugs. She studied economy and psychology but a course on “Drug Policy and Human Rights” she took at the Central European University changed her life. Now she meets with people using drugs every day to provide clean needles, she enters the prison to talk to them, she provides help and gives consolation to drug users in need. In this talk Yuliya explains the roots for people’s hatred towards addicts, the stigmas and the useless ways of helping them. She also points out how this can be changed. TEDxMladostWomen took place on December 1st in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was organized around TEDxWomen 2012. In thespirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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