In this episode of The NOCE Dose, Bianca D. McCall sits down with Jewels Crable, outreach coordinator with NAMI Western Nevada, for an honest conversation about what happens when helping starts to feel like carrying everyone’s everything.
This Listening Session addresses the emotional, cognitive, and professional impact of opioid-related crises on those working in prevention, treatment, and recovery, including clinicians, peers, first responders, and systems leaders. Drawing from suicide postvention frameworks and lived experience, the session explores the invisible injuries of care work, such as compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and moral distress. Attendees will hear from colleagues who have navigated the grief and ethical ambiguity that follow overdose loss or suicide, while also gaining insight into sustainable work-life integration practices and emotional recovery strategies.
Season three of The NOCE Dose, hosted by Bianca D. McCall, centers the people doing the work—and the often invisible costs of caring. This season amplifies the voices of clinicians, peer support specialists, first responders, crisis teams, and community providers across Nevada who show up every day in response to the opioid crisis. Through powerful testimonies and expert insight, we explore how identity, access, and systemic expectations shape who receives support—and who suffers in silence. Each episode offers practical strategies to sustain the workforce, highlighting supervision, peer connection, physical health, and realistic approaches to self-care. Because supporting those on the frontlines isn’t optional—it’s essential.