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Piece Description
A sound-rich feature about an innovative residential drug treatment program on the west coast of Oahu that looks to island traditions to reconnect addicts to their community and culture. The piece follows a group of native Hawaiian methamphetamine addicts to language school, a shrine in the forest, a group therapy session, and a work detail at a local farm. Ho'omau Ke Ola means "to perpetuate life as it was meant to be."
Broadcast History
Aired nationally on Morning Edition in July 2003, and included in hour-long special "Worlds of Difference: Choosing a Path," distributed by NPR in September 2005.
Timing and Cues
INTRO: Of all the many ethnic groups living in Hawaii, native Hawaiians are, by nearly every measure, the worst off. Some native leaders say that waves of outsiders have all but destroyed what was once a highly sophisticated native culture. But that culture is making a bit of a comeback. Jon Miller of Homelands Productions visited one local program that's looking to island traditions for a way out of a particularly modern mess.
OUTRO: That piece was produced by Jon Miller for the Worlds of Difference series. For more information, go to www.homelands.org.
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