Paul Weishapl S3E156

Paul Weishapl is the director of the Nebraska Harm Reduction Program at UNMC. In the show, we ask what it means when someone once written off returns as a witness to suffering and a voice for a more humane response and we talk about addiction, recovery, policy, mortality, and the hard, necessary work of repair in both individual lives and public life.

Paul Weishapl teaches overdose response, harm reduction strategies, and compassion-centered care for people who use drugs. His work is informed not only by public health practice but by lived experience: after roughly two decades of heroin and fentanyl addiction, seven naloxone reversals, incarceration, and profound personal loss, he is now helping Nebraska confront overdose, stigma, and the human realities hidden behind the statistics.

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