What's going on man seeing great man here with another video and You already know what time it is man. Well, not quite what time is we almost did we get in there slowly, but surely man Slowly was surely so I had to make sure I came on here and did one last stream Just in case we don't get to stream early tomorrow before the game because I'm not sure how everything is gonna work out But it will work out So just wanted to come through and just say what's up to everybody Before tomorrow because tomorrow should be pretty crazy tomorrow should be pretty busy From beginning to end. Oh you in Maryland too. That's what's up, man But yeah, tomorrow's the day first game of the season man first game of the season and my phone is my phone already messing up Yes doing this regular mess up stuff, but it's all good man. Appreciate y'all coming through man What's up, man? What is going on? You probably watch the game because Eagles already played. Oh, yeah Yeah, watch it man. Watch it the more people watching the better more people watching the better So yes, I am gonna be tailgating. We're gonna be tailgating. I'm gonna be tailgating with the guys from Birdland BS So shout out to them. We should be in lot H lot H lot H Oh, you're in Prince George's County. That's what's up, man. That's what's up, and I hope we do blow the bills out I hope so but trying to figure out how I'm gonna watch the game though. Um if Go to a Is it our? Dot or the r slash NFL streams up It's the reddit link. I cannot if you have Twitter Send me a DM on Twitter and I'll send you the link that where you can pull up all the other games I might have to find out exactly what it is because you I know you can just go on reddit and ghost You can go on reddit and search for the NFL games, but there's an egg. There's an exact link To where you can just click on that link and it'll bring up the list of everything.  It's gonna be a super busy day from Literally from start to finish We got a lot to do tomorrow Anybody that's gonna be there again. Make sure y'all come through and if it wasn't they take it is free for the first week Oh for direct TV for you. Sure There they make you sign a contract anything am I streaming the game?  No, man. Yeah, we gonna be at the game We're gonna be there tomorrow I'm excited me. I'm excited it Like the the the excitement kind of like been going like in and out Cuz the yeah, it keeps on like going in and out going like back and forth up and down whatever It'll kick in tomorrow for sure it'll kick in tomorrow for sure especially when we out there like tailgating and seeing everybody and stuff man It'll kick in tomorrow for sure Stream the full game. Oh That's never happening.  Oh You know if flakko those for 250 because that's not that's not really a flakko type of thing type of game if like those Don't for 250 yards in the game. It's going either really good Yes, usually going really good. I'm flakko. Don't really do that. Oh Doctor don't mind. No, that's why that's why I'm not even entertaining. What are you talking about? I will never do that I would never do that ever Yeah, never I was Jimmy Smith was only suspended three games. We really need Soon as you wake up. Yeah tomorrow. Yeah tomorrow's gonna kick in right now. It's like it's just chill right now, man it's not really a It's not really there right now yet, but it'll be hit tomorrow it'll be hit tomorrow for sure man, but Well, I guess I'm gonna have this song since it's supposed to be raining because it was gonna be a white flakko Jersey The black and white fatigue pants and the Raven shoes man But yeah football is back tomorrow and Raven's football is back tomorrow This is super excited me. It's super exciting. I can't wait again. Like I said, I'm today today has been a these past like 24 hours just been It's been tiring. It's been a lot of fun, but it's been tiring Are you sleeping with your air read Jersey? Hey, that's what's up, man That's what's up, man No way to track the supply That's what's up me.  So yeah, you should you should be able to watch it from um You should be able to watch it from from the link And if I know you cannot you can download you can download a little radio app to and listen to it on the radio Cuz that'll work that'll work too either way. Oh, yeah, we'll figure something out Can't have nobody missing the game tomorrow But if I know for the first preseason game I was I was taking my wife to the airport and But when I was taking her to the airport, I wanted to watch the game So I had just pulled it up on my phone went to the streams on Reddit and it worked just fine So I was listening to the phone while I was driving or listen to the game on the phone while I was driving In that red light, I would look at the phone and stuff and see what was going on So yeah, it's definitely doable. So yeah, you ain't gonna miss the game tomorrow.  Yes, Kenny young. Hopefully he will see I don't think he's gonna start but He'll definitely play he'll definitely play He'll definitely play Who else oh James Hurst starting that right tackle Let's see how that goes man, but Not not too excited about that But just got a hold for the best form because we know his history. He said the rain he is terrible Yeah, I mean I Blamed that on myself because that's how it is in Florida man Florida it can rain off and all the north and it can sometimes it gets non-stop, but um It's like every time we come here. Just got a rain. It has to rain every time we come here So it sucks, but it is what it is me just rains rains rains rains but No, it's CJ. We said it's full ball.  I was 2000% sure about it. There was no way that I saw James Hurst being all starting right tackle This year, especially after Orlando Brown like with James Hurst starting this is it's weird because The guy didn't even that even take any snaps during preseason at right tackle And it's like it's weird because um They had played Orlando Brown. They're all preseason With starters without starters They have been playing him there all preseason. He got so many snaps at right tackle And James Hurst didn't like he like hardly got any if any at right tackle But you why would you start somebody at right tackle if they haven't got any snaps at right tackle? And I don't know. I know he has before but it just didn't make any sense to me, but It's all good, man. We just got a hold for the best. Hopefully every And I'm gonna say that and when I say no mistakes, um, I know he ain't gonna play perfect Orlando Brown would Wouldn't play perfect. Um, it plays perfect But I just want don't want don't want them giving up the big play because I know if he if he does give up a sack People gonna be calling for that man's head.  What's up little black man? What's going on man? What's up J? Yes, football for sure. Um But yeah, if yeah, no matter when Orlando Brown gets in he will be facing the pass rush because he's the right tackle He's gonna be facing the pass rush Uh, yeah, I think they'll do something with Lamar tomorrow. I think they'll do a little something with him I think they will because um Yeah, I think they will I think they're gonna debut whatever little package they got for Lamar Jackson Um, I think they're gonna they're gonna show They're gonna show them off a little bit not too much but a little bit. So Let's see how that goes. He just got to work on um Just taking care of himself Just taking care of himself. See if rg3 would have If rg3 would have played the way he's playing now When he was first in with the redskins then he would have been in a lot better shape His career would have been in a lot better shape. His health would have been in a lot better shape Um, I mean his health is fine now But his his health back then would have been in a lot better shape if he would have played Yeah, we going to the game tomorrow alex Um, so yeah, if he would have played how he plays now if he would have played like that back then Oh, man superstar man superstar superstar Both him and andrew luck would still be with their teams right now not just andrew luck Might see some players at jimmy's tomorrow night. Some of them come through after games or they really do Oh They know that that's what's up um So, yeah, if Oh, that's cool I had no idea about that. So so they have to win they have to enjoy the game tomorrow, man I go to two games a year. I'm going to the week 11 against since the week seven the rest of the saints Even teabag to be rocking them out. Yeah, it should be fun, man It should be fun if like I guess hers because the hers tomorrow hardball is already fired I yeah, I could see that I could see that Ooh Oh, he oh, he said anquan bolding gonna be out there. So flacco got to throw four touchdowns and no picks I would like to hopefully bolding given that motivation, man um And like I was saying before flacco just It's just a matter of shutting everybody up, man It was nathan peterman six picks at least Didn't the coach will leave him in even if he threw uh, I think a coach would take him out after like three I think he would take him out. He would take him out after three I don't think he would even let peterman get to no five pick game again I think he would take him out after three and be like, you know what? All right, rookie. Let's do it And let let the rookie do his thing.   They're not doing that no more Any chance to kick off time getting delayed or you hear nothing yet? We'll no more tomorrow Um, yeah, we ain't hear nothing yet So we'll see what happens with that Yeah, I think the bill's gonna get like 13 But again, yeah, they could surprise us all man. They could come through and they could be like, you know what? All these ravens been thinking they're gonna blow us out man. They they end up bringing it. So we'll see We'll see what happens bills will get a top three draft pick. What you think they're gonna be that bad? I think I'm all 12 snaps. Okay Let's see that We told Jefferson to step up this year. I think he's like the x-factor the defense I definitely I don't think he's the x-factor the defense. Um I think that is More so like a cj moseley um Tony jefferson now, I don't Well, really an x-factor is somebody who uh How do you explain an x what's the best way to explain an x-factor? I feel like an x-factor somebody who Maybe an unsung hero so to speak.  That's what's up man. Good man. Hope you enjoyed it um Well, yeah, I feel like an x-factor is like an unsung hero somebody who's not. Oh tevon young. There we go tevon young That's one somebody who's not on front street doesn't get all the the highlights and doesn't get all the uh The credit or the acknowledgement or whatever. So yeah, I think tevon young is a perfect uh Perfect person to dedicate as an x-factor There we go. Cowboys panthers. I picked panthers for that one. Um Well, really sneak you think really see you gonna be x-factor on our first. Let's see We're gonna see man. Um x-factor someone who wasn't supposed to have a good game, but did Okay, that's another way to explain it.  I remember you from the other night, man How you think your dolphin's gonna do? Against those titans Those sort of new look titans Game changer Yeah, you can say that redskins will be lasting in division. I think they will be too I'm nervous about our starter. Yeah, we all gonna be nervous tomorrow, man. Because it's the first game It's the first It's the first game, man And it counts Oh, there it goes. My boy great one. I didn't even know you was up in here. My boy was sneaking in here, man I mentioned them dolphins. He showed right up man show right up Um, what's okay. What's up foot lover?  Hopefully they start being really bad tomorrow. Um, who wins between jaylon versus odale? That's gonna be a go. I think they both gonna get their plays though. I think they both gonna get their plays Um For against jaylon ramsey, I don't think odale goes over 100. I don't even I don't think he goes over 80 I think he gets about yeah, like 70 some yards versus jaylon now if jaylon follows him the whole game I think he gets about If they switch it up and have buye on him too, um, and not that buye is a bad corner because he's nice too But if they switch it up, I think odale could get like I think he's still gonna be under 100 either way Because I think they're gonna make sure that that dude don't uh take take take uh He don't go off on him I don't think he's gonna go off on him, man I think jaguar's gonna do everything in their power to make sure odale don't go off and make them throw it to other receivers Like in the other receivers Wish they could they could have got perryman, man. They could have had old He could have had odale beckham jr. On one side and perryman on the other. Oh boy They would have been Would have been in the silver ball. So we'll see man Um, I think the browns will upset the stealers tomorrow. Yeah, I wanted to pick the browns for that game tomorrow I really did and I hope they do win. Um It is tough man. That was that was one of the hardest games to pick and Oh, that was that was a real hard game to pick because I picked the stealers, but I'm like not a hundred I'm not a hundred percent on them. Um beating the browns tomorrow because they they obviously can but um Yeah, I know man We're gonna see We think james kind of goes for a hundred. Good western said the dolphins have a pretty favorable schedule We've won titans and jets and raiders and patriots, right? We can win all of these until the new england game I mean they could win a new england game too. They just got to be on point I'm seeing they're giving sunday man. They could win that one too What's up, you mean in the ravens uh in the ravens game All right, we had some technical difficulties, but we back now, man. Um The ravens going no no less than 12 and four that would be beautiful. Um That would be nice. That would be nice It would be no complaints if if we could do that. Um, and then obviously go on to end up being uh what What would it be 15 and four If you got a bi-week with a 12 and four record If you can get that one or two seed, um, that would be crazy. That would that would be wild I don't think it's gonna happen, but that would be great. That would be great Um, so we'll see one game at a time man one game at a time I'm just hoping for good weather and not a complete hurricane. Oh you here you in baltimore Um, yeah, I don't think it should be too bad. If it was anything like it was today, then that ain't too bad Um, yeah, Tommy every time man every single time Every single time So if we come again, I already know what to expect I already know what to expect and I was hoping that I wouldn't um I was hoping I wouldn't have to bring no hoodie Because I want to go out there super comfortable tomorrow. I want to go out there just shorts The jersey that's it. Um, but It's all good, man We're good. Just got to stay healthy, especially the offensive line. Yeah, that's true Everybody really didn't just entire group everybody.  This might be the year Ravens won the division I mean, it could be but I it's bigger than levy on bail, man. It's bigger than him Um, are you going tomorrow, Tommy? If you're going to the game for sure, man For sure.  That's what's up, man Yeah, y'all got my twitter y'all got my instagram So those are in snapchat too if there's good reception over there Which according to our jb smooth every time you go to a game because he's always tweeting stuff there So that should be good reception. Um, yeah, y'all just hit me up, man. Just hit me up. Just hit me up um So yeah, man Oh you in section one or two I don't even know what section we sitting in yet, but it's I think Let's see just in the 300s or the 500s. I think I think it's 300s I don't know though. I don't I got a I got a check with him, man Um, but what's up lord dubb? But yeah, man Trying to see everybody tomorrow because I like I said, I want I want everybody to um I want as much people as we can so we could we could get a whole new intro Uh for the channel, man Tell us what you think of the new adjustments to the stadium when you oh, yeah for sure man for sure For sure. All right more appreciate you man Um, yeah, because I haven't been since uh, I haven't been to no Ravens game in the stadium since they played The Jets When Ed Reed was on the Jets Since Ed Reed was on the Jets That's um, that's that's the last time I played Lot H tomorrow. Yeah, that's what you tell gate net, uh, and then around like 11 30 um And I said we head to the uh, probably Ravens walking all that and inside the stadium and all that So yeah, man We Whoo, it's gonna be fun.  It's gonna be fun But yeah 62 degrees in rain. That's no fun. Yeah, that's no fun again. Hopefully the forecast is wrong 62 62 degrees that part. I don't mind. Um, but The rain Hopefully it's just like light hopefully it's like, you know how when you at um Well, they don't yeah, they got water parks here But um, like when you had a water park and those some of those rides will have the little mist spraying down or whatever Hopefully it's just like that. Hopefully ain't nothing serious Rain does make it colder.  Everybody have your hoods on have your hoods on Just like that. Have your hoods on um What's where it's five what's where it's five degrees and watching fourth and 12 Oh, yeah, he said tomorrow's gonna be just just quite all right Old entire bills team is staying at your hotel.  So oh, yeah, jr. D did say you're going to what's up? Uh, wolf What's going on, man That's what's up, man So yeah tomorrow's a day, man tomorrow's a day um Wow first game of the season Are you miss Baltimore for real? Baltimore is cool It's cool Yeah, it's cool. I'm over here watching floor to stay getting ready to get whooped They were getting whooped a little earlier, but then they came back to announce a close game, but Who is this team? I can't even see I ain't got my glasses on Uh, who do I want flak all the more? I just wins wins Whoever's bringing in wins Yeah, I play 2k 2 I play 2 but on 2k. I just played my career I play my career or I could play that all day every day and I I just stopped playing my career Uh, two days ago on 2k 18. Um, because I just bought 2k 19 Uh the day before yesterday technically it was yesterday because I bought it like one in the morning.  I mean no, um I would rather him miss oh either one really because that's Both teams got so many weapons and um, I don't know man That oh that's tough that Either one either one is a good or bad a bad answer um Anyway Yeah, I heard somebody I think who was telling me oh, I think it was my boy Ken Miles Maybe he listened to the same radio station too, but he was saying that a lot of them they they crazy too so we just got uh Some football fans just they just take some stuff too serious man Falcons game rivalry game is bigger in my opinion Let's see what you're saying Um, oh, yeah, you know what? Yeah, that's their goals right there. I would rather him miss Misty misty, uh the falcons game too. Thank you for bringing that up because the the stealers game Is a division game and that counts That counts that much more I appreciate you will thank you man The the division game counts way more than a uh I mean not the or division too, but it's a division game and plus it's an afc game So the bills had the same chance as us. Which one? The seven the seven a tsunami. Which one are you talking about? Which channel you talking about Tommy? But yeah, I would rather him. Yeah, that makes sense man. That makes sense That makes a lot of sense, uh, if he were to miss the the falcons game instead of the stealers game But yeah, yeah, that could be big this year because we could be contingent for division Yeah, I think the browns gonna win some. Oh, yeah, me too. Browns for sure. They're definitely gonna win some They're definitely gonna win some I could oh, yeah, they I think they're gonna be a lot better than they have been Um, so yeah, we'll we'll see how that goes. Yeah, some people take it way too far and fight over. Yeah, man Some people just they do too much when it comes to football man If you're gonna talk trash talk trash, that's fine and that's fun but people that be like fighting and all that and They try to make like make stuff personal and all that and it's like no man.  What's up, man? I'll see you tomorrow, man Nah, I didn't man. I didn't I just end up uh coming to my family house And chilling I actually had fell asleep for a while too, man. I had fell asleep. Um And yeah, what's up, uh poppy But yeah, man tomorrow Tomorrow is the day Tomorrow is the day I will just flood state receive it's breaking people browns have some good talent They just need good management to put that talent to use. Yeah, that's a good point But yeah, it is real stupid man.  They take it way overboard Way overboard our bill is going to upset now. I hope the bills are upset After losing but hopefully they don't upset um, but yeah Anyway What's up Marcus? How you doing, man? We're gonna see how it goes tomorrow, man You're gonna see how it goes So I don't know when I'm gonna be able to go to sleep tonight since I took that nap Oh, yeah, definitely man. Definitely Western appreciate it. Appreciate it. Appreciate it David's defense gonna have fun tomorrow. I hope they do. I hope they do. I hope they have a lot of fun I hope it's a lot of dancing from them I hope Flacco is on the sideline smiling because when you get those two things that means ravens are playing really good football They're playing really good football so You'll see. I don't think lj looking so good. I mean he's He's looking fine. I mean he's looked he's looked better. He's he's continued to progress like Every week and just when you thought he was gonna like take steps back. He actually took steps forward And he looks he looks he looks fine to meet me. I'm not concerned about him at all I feel like this year the ravens vs brown for the division championship That would be a shocker to a lot of people included myself, but we'll see Browns have everything in place except offensive coordinator Oh, you don't like Todd Hailey. Oh, yeah, you got plenty of experience with him You got plenty of experience with him being a stealers fan um So, yeah We'll see Do you know pairman status? He's still a free agent. He visited with the vikings last, but that's it That's it kind of why why you say a year two Why you say a year two because I I know I feel like a lot of people just uh have been riding with uh Riding out with I forgot what that whole year two things started for the more I don't know if it was like the media that said I think it has been the media But I'm just curious. I just want to know why you say a year two um full of more Jackson Because I mean it's it's going to happen regardless because unless fleco gets hurt in rg3 gets hurt or traded but um with the whole the whole year two thing um Because I see a lot of people been saying that I think oh, yeah, he should he can't play right now He's not ready right now. Yeah, I just did sit for a long time But people ain't doing that no more People ain't sitting these dudes like that no more Um, I think Rogers was he might have been the last one. I mean he ended up being great and he ended up uh This dude sat he sat for the longest behind Brett farvin. He still Broke so many records and whatnot and his um his uh His touchdown to an exception ratio Is just crazy Um, it's it's crazy. He's crazy man. He's crazy good. Um Um, yeah, Aaron did have this Somebody asked about this who matches up with Benjamin best at D.B. Brennan car Brennan car I think um I don't know. Yeah, I gotta check. I gotta text my guy Uh, I think it's in either the three or five hundreds. I think it's the 300.  Just not good against speedy receivers.  I think uh, Brennan car matches up with him better Um I don't know if they still got zade jones or not uh But yeah, and I mean we'll see if maulahum if they put maulahum free on them I'm sure they will They'll probably switch it up from time to time. Flacco will play better because he has real competition. Yeah I'm out here um Yeah, we still got so we still got sox So I mean sox I mean he looks ready every year but sox. I loved how um Sox was like being super. Yeah, I am I'm about to get off here in a little bit But I love how sox was being super aggressive even in the preseason game If y'all remember when we played the colts Yeah, I remember when we played the colts a couple weeks ago in the preseason game and to real sox he got around the uh He got around the the colts left tackle and andrew luck was in the pocket But he was like moving to the right and sox was chasing them and you lucky and see them and sox He could have went for the sack It's just preseason none of this stuff counts It is what it is But to real sox went for the strip sack and he took his hand and swatted try to hit the ball out of andrew luck's Hands and I don't know if andrew luck has super glue on his hands or what but he ain't dropped the ball But so to real sox did get the sack Um, the sox been looking good, man He'd be looking good Are we going to pick up a new whiteout before the trade deadline because There are Trade ruins we might trade for the merriest time in serrano cough. I don't think so unless what we got just looked bad I don't think so Wilson or Wilson playing He's got nothing on us Realistic I feel like we can go to the super bowl this year. Yeah, they got a chance, man Sox is like having that 12 year old pit bull still dangerous thing Yeah, he just he's older, but Just his experience.  What with terrell sox the dude is still Yeah, he is less less athletic and less faster than he used to be But he got that experience and that experience helps him in the mental part of the game, which is just That's so important man.  What are we talking about? Oh cow bowler um There's what a connected with flacco deep throws. You could have man And even being a possession receiver, uh, we Flacco, I mean we got crabtree crabtree not a fast crabtree not fast at all. Um You know Mark said theirs ain't no good route runner Um I think they think theirs would have been fine with us And there's still that possibility But let's see what happens with theirs. I was for sure that he was going to go to the Browns I thought he's going to go to the Browns or still But I know after week one If when the player signs after week one their entire salary is not guaranteed. So that could be a possibility too Um, there's got poor work ethics aka Mike Wallace syndrome Why you so why you say that because of what the because he's not known for the way a good route. So Because his hand is not the best for what why you say that one Browns or stillers for what? Oh in the game tomorrow. I'm tripping. I'm thinking he was doing like a list or something. Um Steelers I feel like you could go with either one. I mean, I mean you could obviously only go with either one because that's your only two choices but I'm I'm saying Steelers, but I'm just I'm not that sure about it. I'm like I'm like 53 percent Steelers and the other 47 percent Browns. It's like super close. It's super close um So I don't know I was a fan of Mike Wallace. I mean at least he wasn't Macklin Yeah, he wasn't but um Macklin definitely had better hands than Mike Wallace Definitely had better hands than Mike Wallace But he was just A lot softer his body just wasn't ready for this This body wasn't ready for uh For the ASE North like he just he was soft for us Oh ain't nobody sleeping on the Browns, uh Brandon Nobody sleeping on the Browns man. Not at all. What's up Chiefs Kingdom? How you doing man? Ain't nobody sleeping on the Browns at all man with the Ravens when the Super Bowl this year I would love for them to that would be nice C. Geek recommended had them at uh Oh that body catch and killed them Hmm This matter tomorrow is Watson versus Brady. Hey, that should be fun. What's up Gavin? What's going on me?  Oh, he shows no effort Oh Kenan Dixon is the best running back. You're right Uh, Brandon. I agree. He said he's sick of seeing Patriots in the Super Bowl That's why another AFC team got a step up Ravens score prediction. I'll say a 34-13 Giant to Jags tomorrow and why?   He hasn't got a chance to prove himself. So that's that's the only reason I say that um But I would go I would go with the Jaguars um Just because if the Jaguars defense Can take out the Giants offense and I don't I don't really think they'll be able to take them out Or they might be able to actually really but if the Jaguars defense can take out the Giants offense, um Then with with Leonard for net with t uh tj yelled in If they can get their running game going and they actually let Blake Bortel stole the ball Then It could get they could get ugly. I think it'll be a close game. I think it'll be a really good game I almost wish they would have put this game at like, uh On Sunday night football Monday night football because I really wanted to I really wanted to watch this one I had really wanted to watch this one. Um, so I guess I'm gonna have to just watch highlights me so that's That's that's not that's not what I wanted. I wanted to see the actual game Because I really wanted to see the Jaguars and other Giants me So let's see Let's see as long as they have Eli without improved o-line. There's no way they win Oh, yeah, that offensive line to that that jaguars this their pass rush is super good and super fast Their linebackers are super fast. The cornerbacks are super good and they can run with anybody um Their defense is for real man What about Hurst cotton? What are you talking about? Oh, this is nice. So, uh, yeah, you may just might just be Yeah, the Rams they load up man If they loaded up big time Charges on thing charges the trash charges the straight. Um They Oh, gremory put up in here for them. That's what's up, man The charges are they just always getting everybody always gets hurt Everybody gets hurt. So I think Antonio Gates probably waited to sign till like a couple days ago because he was like No, I ain't trying to catch what they catching over there. I want to stay healthy. Um I want the Ravens to get a rematch against the Bengals Well, yeah, they'll have they'll have two chances at it Um, so, yeah And you know that fourth and 12 is going to get brought up the entire game When we played them on thursday. Oh that fourth and 12 is going to be brought up over and over and over and over again Um, if it's a blowout where they put them all rg3 in They could um If one of those two does get in the game then That will be nice because that will mean like And we'll see you think we'll get a lot of turnovers. I I say about five say five I'll say five a mix of fumbles and interceptions Um, so yeah, I say about five So we'll see y'all make sure I leave a like on the video to There's 44 people up in here, but it's only 27 likes.  He's trash. So Charges were so hot at the end of the seasons. Yeah, they usually get hot at the end of the seasons. Um They usually be like up and down up and down up and down and then when it's when it's like crunch time They're like, okay, that's when they start being on point sort of like the ravens a lot like the ravens actually Because ravens, they don't like to be the stress free team anymore They don't like to put it away early anymore The last time they put the season away early Where they actually locked up their playoff spot and they had time left in the season was when they won the super bowl So they ain't done it since then um So been a long time Oh, yeah bells. Yeah, he's pretty done in Pittsburgh, especially after this year. All right, Jay Appreciate you man. I see you Uh 100 chance of rain tomorrow I think it will keep the game close. Uh, that's they could they could man So you're right um Yeah Anyway, appreciate y'all watching man. I'm gonna go ahead and get off of here now. Um I will see y'all tomorrow He said rain rain means more picks for Ravens D. We'll see We'll see how many complete seasons has bell played in his career Has he played any Has he played any I don't know Yeah, I don't I don't know I don't know the answer to that question Has the I don't know if he's played any any for any complete seasons at all So Not last year. No He ain't play out of games last year Then he missed one last year Either way. All right. Appreciate y'all man. I see y'all. Uh, I see y'all tomorrow Um with a lot more energy too Today these players like I said he's had 24 hours just been They've been long. They've been super long. Well, I see y'all tomorrow, man. We are


Hello everyone, welcome to this video abstract presentation on Efficient Adaptively Secured Byzantine Agreement for Long Messages. My name is Chenda and I'm at Entity Research and this is joint work with Amai from UC Riverside, Julian from CISPA and Kartik from Duke University. So what is Byzantine Agreement? So Byzantine Agreement is a distributed protocol among a bunch of parties which are connected via some communication network and basically the setting is each party has their own input so PI has XI as input and they need to compute an output that satisfies two security guarantees. The first guarantee is called consistency meaning that all the honest parties output the same value and the second guarantee is validity meaning that if all honest parties have the same value as input X then this should be the value that they output and of course the thing is that these two security guarantees must hold even when a subset of the parties is corrupted or becomes corrupted during the protocol execution. So when we talk about Byzantine Agreement protocols, a main efficiency metric is what we call the communication complexity. The communication complexity is basically the number of bits that honest parties have to communicate during the protocol execution and ideally it's not hard to think that the best case scenario is if the communication complexity of the Byzantine Agreement is something like N times L where L is the number of, is the input size in bits and N is the number of parties. So if we take the best, the most communication efficient protocols that exist nowadays these are sub-credit communication protocols starting from the works of Algorand and some follow-ups afterwards. These protocols achieve a communication complexity that looks more like O of poly of kappa N times L where kappa is some sort of security parameter. So there is an overhead of poly of kappa with respect to the ideal communication complexity that we would like to achieve. So these solutions don't quite give us what we want. But there is another line of works which is actually like a very traditional line of works starting from the 80s by Turbin and Cohen which are called extension protocols. And these are protocols that assume like a broadcast or a Byzantine Agreement protocol for a short message and it kind of expands it to a protocol for Byzantine Agreement for a long message with L bits. And there is a long line of works in this direction and the most efficient protocol or the previous most efficient was recently published at disk by Nayak, Ren, Xi, Badia and Xian disk 2020 and their protocol achieves a communication of N times L plus N squared times kappa. This basically means that if the input size is long enough, in particular if the input size is at least of size kappa times N linear in the number of parties, then the protocol achieves optimal communication N times L. So in this work we ask whether we can further improve the communication complexity of the protocols that we have nowadays and we answer in the affirmative. So our protocol achieves communication N times L plus N times poly of kappa. What does this mean? This means that our protocol is optimal for an input range that is of size poly of kappa. In particular we can think about the input range as being sub-linear in the number of parties. A little bit more formally, what is our main contribution? Our paper basically says that there are Byzantine Agreement protocols that achieve adaptive security. This means that the parties can become corrupted during the protocol execution and the communication complexity is NL plus N times poly of kappa as I said for L bit inputs, meaning the optimal communication is achieved for very sub-linear sized inputs and we give two protocols in two flavors. The first protocol is a synchronous protocol that tolerates up to N over two corruptions and the second is an asynchronous protocol that tolerates up to any fraction up to N over three corruptions. So for more details I refer you to the e-print version of the paper or the long talk that will happen at the confidence. Thank you very much.


So you just put out an ad recently that is fantastic and we'll play that now for people who are watching So few it will collapse. We better wake up and understand that we have to center all of our policies around poor people and working people and people of color and marginalized communities. Every policy we have is the rich people don't need any more money. Millions of jobs in the rest of our industry. Millions in the hospitality industry. Millions of jobs in the service sectors that don't have those protections that have been lost because our country has allowed union membership to be decimated. Those are the millions of people who don't have any protection. Tens of thousands are already dying every year because they didn't have health care. Is there going to be a hospital bed for me if I need it? Is there going to be a ventilator if I need it? Am I going to lose my job if I get sick or I can't go back to work? Capitalism does not care about working people.  It only cares about replicating and making more capital. These are the viruses that still plague our body as an income inequality and racial injustice and health care and security and housing insecurity and food insecurity. Because once this virus has and it will pass, the systems that are in place that are exploiting people right now must be dealt with. But it's going to be up to our generation to get this ball rolling because we cannot rely on the White House. We cannot rely on Republicans. We cannot rely on corporate Democrats. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, don't tell me what you believe. Show me what you do. And I'll tell you what you believe. With regard to that ad, the first thing really, it stood out. You said black Americans, they were the first capital in this capitalist system. Their bodies were literally capital. So I'm curious, tying capitalism to all of this. I want to know your take on this. Is it possible to change policing to root out racism effectively? I mean, it will never go away. But can we change it enough without actually tackling capitalism itself? I'm curious what your take is on this because you always break things down so beautifully in a way that's easy to digest. I mean, these are big issues and it's kind of tough to wrap your head around it. But what's your take on capitalism's role in all of this? Because I feel like it's present everywhere and we also have to address this as well. Well, that's a great question. So again, no, you can't do it peacefully. It's systematic. So like I said in my ad, black people literally were the first capital. You know, the more slaves you owned, the more property you owned, you know, the bigger your plantation could be and so on and so forth and the richer you could get. So we were the first capital. If we want to capitalism, it's a line. It runs through all these things, criminal justice, policing. Because if you think about it, for-profit prisons have to make a profit. So they need bodies to fill those prisons. That's why they funnel money to the police forces to make them quasi-military forces to arrest more people, to lock them up, to fill up for-profit prisons. So now all the contractors can provide the beds and the foods and the meals. And then we can get the guards. We can pay the guards now because now they're part of this capitalist system. Oh, this capitalist system that's funneled super, super amounts of money into the military-industrial complex. Well, we have surplus equipment. So what do we have to do with it?  And we're going to sell it to our police force so we can keep our poor people and our working class people in check. Capitalism, it's a vein that runs through all these things. And in my ad, when I say that capitalism doesn't care about poor people and working people, it really doesn't. I mean, if it did, it wouldn't be capitalism. It would be socialism. It cares about making more capital and replicating that. And criminal justice is a big, big business. It's about the second biggest business. Everybody thinks, you know, it's pharmaceuticals or technology. No, one is the military-industrial complex. And then it's criminal justice because it runs the vein through all of that stuff. And if we don't systematically reform or systematically dismantle this capitalist system, it's never going to change. I mean, we've been talking about these things for 100 years, for 200 years. The first slave that said, let me be free wanted to end capitalism. They didn't like it. So we've been talking about this for hundreds and hundreds of years.  Bro, I can go out this door right now as a highly decorated disabled veteran. Metals, ribbons, letters from the president thanking me for my service and my bravery.  That system cannot be reformed. That system has to be dismantled. Yeah. And you said something in that ad that also stood out to me. You said, capital only cares about replicating and making more capital. And that's so simple. And it's easy to understand capitalism is like a virus. Like it has led to the commodification of everything like human lives, you know, are commodified, but this isn't necessarily a new phenomenon. This has been a thing that's happened since the founding of the country. And, you know, these problems, like the rate that capitalism is able to replicate, it's faster than the rate of change, which is why we kind of see things getting progressively worse throughout the country. Why it feels like, you know, we're not really making change. You know, and you think that with time, you know, progress, it is going to head in one direction that change is linear, but that's not necessarily true.  But then days before that, Donald Trump stripped away health care protections for transgender people. So it's not like you're just going to move in one direction.


I feel like I had a little too many things to worry about. So sorry about that, that's just it. They had it the real crazy though. The real professional. Yeah, it was great. I mean, obviously, the biggest thing we won, so I'm happy with that. But personally, I feel like it was good to get out there, get some reps on the team, like get the communication flowing. But yeah, I don't know, I enjoyed the opportunity. Yeah, we just, I think the thing that me and Matt were both thinking about was we want to make sure we want to make sure that the rest of the linemen don't feel a difference in communication. Like when one of us is in, or the other, we just want everybody to be on the same page, all that, and not have to have that be an issue. So that was one of the big focuses, I think. If Coach Woodong was saying that I want to make sure that I couldn't be any more fortunate that Matt's been one of the best teammates I've ever had, and he's been awesome at teaching me, getting me up to speed. And then obviously with this, we both know we're going to work as hard as we can however the chips fall, that's kind of how it's going to work. But he's been awesome. I've been trying to support him as much as I can too, so it's been good. I really have much of a preference or like a determination. I just want to be in alignment, be able to play both, have them feel good about me playing both. I think I have a little more familiarity right now with center, but I want to be able to play both, so I'm working to be able to play both. A good amount, yeah. And just in practice to be conscious to make sure I get reps at those kinds of things, and they've been good about teaching to me as well. Do you tell them? No, I kept them myself. I just wanted to, you know, like, I don't know what kind of information we're getting out there, so I just wanted to be smart about it. I think they're familiar enough with the game that they know, like, okay, I would get it, but they were excited about it. No, they weren't. No, they got worked and they're busy, so.  Definitely. I think he does an awesome job and he talks about doing it every day, and like, that's what gets most people is not being able to do those same things every day. So I think just practicing hard, making sure that we're going, no matter what situation is, late this season and all that. So I think he's done a really phenomenal job of keeping us, like, keeping the standard the same regardless. Studying those things, working with Matt Hennessy as well, just being prepared as much as I can. Probably speaking to how the other guys feel, but yeah, you definitely, it's a little tougher, but we've been, we've been doing an awesome job helping to get me those reps, and especially the mental reps that are not in there. So I've been comfortable, and I think they've felt comfortable as well.


For video streaming, gaming, social media, plus smart home devices, and security systems standard high-speed or cellular internet is just too slow. But Broadband keeps your home connected. Call or visit Gearhart Broadband online. I'm here in downtown Pottyville where a mural was unveiled by local artist Austin Casebolt. This unveiling is one of many art pieces that will be featured in their art initiative program. I met with Austin Casebolt, the artist behind this mural, to find out what inspired him to create Woman with Cardinal. Pikeville, Kentucky is the place that built me, and I'm really proud of that. I'm really happy to be from here, and this piece was about giving back to the community in a way that brought joy and that would remind people of the dignity that exists from being from this wonderful, wonderful area. This is an initiative from city management, local elected officials, our downtown Main Street program in conjunction with the Appalachian Art Center. I've been working together for quite some time now to create and cultivate something that is truly representative of the character that exists within the mountains. Austin says that the conceptual design of the piece is in response to the way others view and see Eastern Kentuckians as modern Americans. The piece is titled Woman with Cardinal, and you'll also notice a variety of odes to typical Kentucky iconography, like our Kentucky State Bird, the Golden Rod, and of course the mountains, that if you look closely have continued and hopefully will continue to build us into the people that we've become. Yeah, a lot of times people will ask how long something takes, and my best answer is 26 years. I'm 26 years old, so compiling all of the experiences into one thing is just impossible, so to say that something took a set amount of time, it's taken years of practice and diligence and education as well. It's really exciting to spearhead any sort of project, especially one that's so near and dear to the heart in my hometown, so we're all really hopeful that we get to see an entire alley full of just beautiful art that explains the narratives and the nuances of what it means to be person from Eastern Kentucky. So this is the newest addition to hopefully a very wide variety of wonderful art pieces that express the nature of Eastern Kentucky people, so if you get the chance, if you're in our beautiful unique downtown area, come on down and take a look and see what the future holds for the community of art and for the people of Eastern Kentucky. If there are any other artists out there watching, I would like to say to keep it weird and to follow your dreams. Reporting in Pikeville, Kentucky, I'm Jeremy Justice with Your Mountain Top News.


There is a treatment exceptionalism for people who use drugs, one which does not respect our fundamental rights nor equity. As a current treatment treats us as subjects to control rather than as any other population that has a right to health. So I'm really pleased to be co-chairing this session. Of course we'll have a panel of speakers that will be sharing their perspectives and recent development of tools from both practitioner and client perspectives on OAT. And of course these insights will be critical to listen to, to make the treatment system the way it should be. So I'll just pass over to my co-chair. Oh, hello. Hello, I'm Dr. Christos Coimtidis. I am the National Coordinator for Addressing Drugs of Grease. I'm an addiction psychiatrist in profession and I practice in the UK and I have the policy role in Greece. It is a great honour for me and Greece to co-sponsor this event. Part of our efforts to meaningfully involve the civil society into the development of policy implementation and evaluation. Not an easy process, I have to say. I'm very pleased for the event today. I have to say that the starting point for me is that the provision of treatment for people who have a drug problem, substance use problem, is not a charity from the part of state, it is an obligation. It is an obligation that relies on the human rights access to health. The balance between regulations that control the professionals and the rights and responsibilities of the people receiving treatment is at times delicate and relies on clear rules, information and mutually agreed terms. In several countries it's called care plan, in other countries it's called treatment plan, whatever it is. Clear rules are important and to that effect the initiative that the civil society has taken to that effect in today's event. I hope that will contribute to that discussion. So give it back to Judy for introducing the panel members. Thank you Dr. Christos. So first off we have Dr. Andrew Scheiber who will be joining virtually. He's a medical doctor by training who works in harm reduction research, programs and policy in South Africa and the region. So thank you for letting me join today. It's fantastic to be part of this session. I'm going to speak a little bit around the opioid agonist therapy training program, developed by UNODC and WHO. And as we know, opioid dependence contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality. And the use of contaminated injecting equipment spreads the blood-borne infections, particularly HIV and viral hepatitis. And we know that opioid agonist therapy is very effective for the treatment of opioid dependence and is an effective harm reduction intervention. We know that OAT improves health outcomes and social outcomes and it also can improve people's adherence to anti-development therapy and other chronic medications. There is very good guidance available on how to implement opioid agonist therapy in a range of contexts, guidance from the World Health Organization, UNODC and also collaborative guidance on how to develop these interventions and provide them in partnership with community organizations and networks. However, despite this guidance, we know that coverage of OAT is really far from what is needed. The 2022 global state of harm reduction shows us in this map presented on your screen just how few countries provide opioid agonist therapy. Those that are gray, there's either no data or no OAT services. And in the light green, there's only at least one OAT service in a community setting. The few countries that are dark green are where OAT is available in the community as well as in prison. And just looking at data from 2016-17, at that stage, there were only 20 countries around the world that had at least 40% coverage of OAT. And we know that the 2025 target for the global AIDS strategy is to provide 50% of people with opioid dependence with access to OAT. So a huge significant scale-up is necessary for public health impacts around opioid dependence and HIV. This training program is based on a tool that was developed collaboratively between UNODC and WHO. And it's intended to support professionals to establish and deliver evidence-based opioid agonist therapy. It aims to provide practical guidance on how to start, establish, roll out and sustain quality services. And it's a focus on OAT in the context of HIV or viral hepatitis programs or in drug treatment settings. Important to note, it's not intended to be a clinical training because that can be subsequent and there is other guidance and resources for clinical training. And it doesn't focus specifically on the needs of providing OAT in the context of prison or in closed settings because of the unique circumstances of those environments. The target audience is largely for health policy makers, administrators of health institutions, as well as health managers. The process was established and followed the guidance of a working group that included representatives from UN agencies, civil society organizations and networks of people who use and inject drugs. There was a drug desk review of available guidance and other resources. There was consolidation of information from selected countries where OAT is available and is being scaled up, as well as synthesis of this information to develop a draft document which was reviewed, analyzed and finalized. The tool is structured in several chapters. Starting with an introduction, later there's a presentation of a framework around how the different components are presented. Then there are separate chapters for different phases of an OAT program. And then there's one chapter that looks at some of the nuances and issues of importance for providing OAT for specific populations. We have included various case studies that give examples of how countries in different contexts from Southeast Asia to North Africa to East Africa have developed an implemented OAT and scaled it up and shown to be an effective intervention. The main content is structured around various how-to questions, providing simple guidance, clear information and also reference to more detailed guidance for specific issues. We've included a series of videos that are really testament to how OAT works. We've included the voices of people who themselves have used and benefited from OAT. We've included some interviews from organizations working in civil society as well as technical experts and clinicians to reflect their experience in the country's experience of OAT scale up. The module focusing on the framework takes an approach of how OAT programs expand over time, starting with initial groundwork, planning, scale up, moving towards sustainability and the four main components of an OAT program. Importantly, including engagement with people who use OAT, engaging and obtaining leadership and support, components relating to financing, the workforce, strategic information and medications, and also looking at elements of service delivery. The training program initially was developed to be delivered in a virtual format and has since been adapted to enable face-to-face training. It is based on the tool and the package involves a slide set with training guides, as well as a range of interactive materials. We've aimed to include participatory methods and in the face-to-face version, the gender program is tailored to allow more inclusion of local content and more time for engagement and discussion of key issues. The process to date was a two-year development process with initial manual development and then training tool development and subsequently the starting of some of the training. The virtual training has been held with a group of stakeholders from UNODC as well as from Pakistan and the first face-to-face training happened in November last year in Egypt. This year there's been a training for stakeholders in Mozambique to prepare them as trainer trainers for a series of events that will happen in that country. And later in this year there are face-to-face and virtual trainings planned for several countries including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, India, Laos, Tanzania, Tunisia and Iran. So this has been a collaborative process and really grateful for all the organizations and individuals involved. I really hope that this is something that can be used to increase access and scale up for this life-saving intervention. Thank you very much. So it's fantastic to see these very practical technical guidance tools developed by WHO and UNODC and importantly they were developed in partnership with clients. I know there wasn't enough time to see the video examples but having seen them before, you know those video examples and testimonials really bring to life how critical well-developed OAT programs are. So next up I'd like to introduce Richard Healy. He holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland. He'll be providing a service user perspective but also the perspective of a researcher whose research has covered an exploration of narratives of service users through a human rights lens. Thank you. It's a real pleasure to be here and speaking today. I found myself in a funny place. I've a lot to thank Metadone for. You know I got a PhD through Metadone. I'm a father through Metadone. It's changed my life dramatically. It's done so much good things for me. But yeah, so much of my friends back at home aren't sharing the same victory in their own lives. The same outcomes in their own lives. So we would be from a service led, called the service users rights and action based out Dublin. And we have inadvertently stumbled upon a model that has been used for service users evaluating the services themselves. So how did this come about? So it basically consists of service users, former service users, service providers found 2012. And we've published, I published a piece about a year ago called, it was called, and what I noticed was that nearly everybody in the community all over Europe were identifying with what we were finding in Dublin. We're identifying with the same things that we were finding in Dublin. That Metadone had become very controlling in people's lives. There was no reintegration after Metadone in people's lives. And we weren't seeing any of this. So how did four service users really get this done? And I'm being asked to kind of translate this model into larger audiences. And I'm kind of a little bit embarrassed a little bit because there's very little to it. It was a very simple thing that came about. We're four or five service users with about 20 years each under our belts of using Metadone services in Ireland. We got together. We realized that there was four main problems with panoptic services in Dublin. So there was no meaningful relationship with the GP. Frequency of your analysis, your analysis was just, was based on everything. No choice in treatment. We were operating on human rights lands under the right to health, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 12. And we carried out four pieces of research to trace, if people are aware of that right, Article 2 is Progressive Realization. Where it allows states to provide the highest attainable level of health care dependent on a state's resources. So what we wanted to trace the narrative of drug service users was we were able to trace a week. We were able to trace research carried out after a few years. And to save these four primary key underpinning damaging parts of Metadone were still being carried out, which was your analysis, no choice in treatment, no independent or robust avenue for complaint and the frequency of your analysis. So we carried this on and you can skip on to the next one there, yeah. So we carried out the research and what we're finding is, and this is where I found myself in a really difficult part, because I'm being critical of something that has been so empowering in my own life. It's allowed me to do a PhD. It's allowed me to speak over here. But yet, if we can see the stats up here, most people in Ireland are, if there's about 12,000 Metadone users at the minute, 600 on Suboxone. So it's primarily Metadone we're talking about in Dublin. And at the minute we would have, it's totally based on your own sample. There's no relationship with the doctor, there's no, you'd very rarely be asked how you are. So that wouldn't be, that wouldn't come into it whatsoever. No meaningful review with your doctor. So what we have found is that we're getting a very ageing metadone population in Ireland. Yeah, I've researched what we've found is that we've, there's no meaningful review. We've got supervised analysis stops so that there's a far more, there's no power imbalance when you're engaging with your doctor. Your doctor is speaking to you as a patient as opposed to someone who's in treatment. So that whole word of being in recovery has been now being replaced by empowerment. And who you are as an, as, I wouldn't see myself in recovery. I would see myself as taking the medication every day to allow myself to operate a pretty high standard in life. You know, so unfortunately we don't see that a lot in Dublin. We find highly entrenched with your analysis, highly controlled, social controlled mainly. All set on contracts, no quality of life, no reintegration. And we've no, there's no good outcomes. So what we're ending up, what's ending up happening is we are having an increasingly large metadone population that's aging and that's not moving forward in any way. There's no reintegration. Where we would start with reintegration would be housing, job, whereas metadone in Ireland stopped people from doing this, unfortunately. And this is where I found myself at that little ambiguity in my own life because it's helped me, but it's blocked so many others. And it's not metadone. It's not the medication. It's how it's been dispensed, unfortunately. Unfortunately. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's really incredible research and definitely, you know, something very much worth disseminating more broadly. And I think it's so powerful doing the research, but coming from that lived experience at the same time. So I'll just. Richie, thank you very much. And now I'm going to introduce Christos Anastasiu. Christos is from Greece, as the name says. And he is a representative of the Euro input. I know Christos very well from his work in Greece and our times positive collaboration times less so or challenging. But that's the point of all days to enter discussions at the times can be difficult and challenging. Christos going to talk about the OAT client guide and the positive solutions to OAT literacy rights from a Euro input point of view. Christos. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen and friends beyond the binary. I'm Christos from Athens and European OAT project manager of the client of a client OAT service. This service started in Greece 27 years ago. I was back then I was a 246 client in an experimental unit in Exarchia. I have been stable since 2004. I'm living proof of the benefits of OAT and the possibility of positive change from the streets and the drug skin. We create a family and with my wife who is also in OAT and now we have a daughter is 18 years old. Also the last 10 years we managed to create the first network of people with drugs in Greece, which called Pearnups. We managed to connect with all international and European peers and colleagues. This connection skyrocket our knowledge and productivity and gave us a motivation. We feel an obligation to assure that services become better, more efficient and more accessible to customers. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we recognize the important to renew the advocacy for people in OAT. We started to research for the creation of the OAT client guide. We talk all over the world with colleagues and experts involved in OAT services and advocacy. Since we recruited people in OAT in pilot countries to form the OAT project team. The objective of the project is to present in an accessible manner the best practice starters for pure diagnosis therapy based on professional guidelines and science. To describe starters for the provision of OAT that are consistent with the human rights principles, it also requires that the primary objective to be the health and well-being of the patient, not the cost of the convenience, to support the value of meaningful therapeutic relationships between people with opioid dependency and their OAT prescribers and their OAT team. To develop a self-version of the new normal for the OAT provision based on dynamic partnership between people with opioid dependency and those who design, manage and deliver OAT services, we are also to assure that services users are involved in every decision-making process that affects their treatment. Next slide. So this is the client guide. We developed this OAT client guide based in a research written from our piece from Canada. It designed to be tailored and translated for use of different countries. We work to secure the sponsorship from governments, provide the professional partners, and this requires negotiation. Our Swedish version has only three OAT options, while the German one has seven. We want to provide people from OAT with a great statement of their rights and the information leaflet. And to create a meaningful therapeutic analysis in OAT, we need to understand our rights and have confidence that raising issues about the treatment quality will not result in treatment sanctions. Next slide. Policy makers and clinicians need to better understand that client education is a priority. Coming up the streets, people are looking to make positive detains, but they may not understand the drug treatment system or OAT medication and they may worry about discrimination from healthcare providers. Correct scientific information is vital for empowering people with opioid dependency to get more out of OAT and drug treatment. There are five main factors that typically need to be approved in OAT. It's whether the well-being of the person, his income, his living environment, his confidence in his department and the social interactions and less isolation. Having proven on some or all of those factors is the head of the successful treatment. Clients of OAT sanctions can be accorded to form groups aimed to their growth. Next slide. Quality and status of the delivery of OAT is well described in so many different UN and other technical guidelines. We know that OAT medications are highly effective and we know that works in terms of dosing, psychosocial support and other empowerment strategies. We need people in OAT to be well informed and engaged in their own healthcare. Having drug user advocacy group for people in OAT is important, quality support structure and the European office, our client guide has a strategy to help us create a meaningful therapeutic analyser so we can truly set what we need together. Thank you. This is the team that makes the OAT happen in seven different languages. Most of them you know them. I don't want to say each one. Thank you. Thanks very much. Sorry my minister couldn't make it. She was called away at the last minute so I'm here on her behalf. My name is Alison Crockett. I'm a whole systems unit head for the drug positive vision in the Scottish government. So it's really just to welcome this short video that is going to be shown by a guy called Duncan Hill. I believe I don't know this and it's just really to say that, well I guess to put it in context there he is the very man. Just to say that we have in Scotland though introduced as part of our drugs mission medication assisted treatment standards and they really are based on a number of principles which is about creating an environment where people can access services quickly where they can access them with dignity and respect where they can have some choice and where they are given the support and their wellbeing is properly considered and I do think that this initiative will very much contribute to our success in the Scottish government of being able to successfully implement our standards. So just to say very much welcome this initiative, very much welcome the work that you're doing and very much look forward to seeing them rolled out in Scotland. Thank you. Can we have the video now? My name is Duncan Hill. I'm a specialist pharmacist in substance misuse in NHS Lanarkshire in Scotland. In Scotland we're fairly fortunate we have specialist pharmacists working in all but one of the main land health boards at the moment so there's 14 of us but we also have a wider network beyond that. The reason I've come to speak to you and introduce how we're using the OAT client guide today is we connected to Matt via a long way and that's what I'm going to explain to obtain and agree to change or adapt the client guide to a more local Scottish kind of version that we could distribute to patients in Scotland. What set it all off was there was a paper done by the Scottish government and SDF called Staying Alive which started off looking at tackling drug related deaths in Scotland. As we know we've got a fairly substantial challenge and our rates of death are tragically high and are three times higher than that of the rest of the UK and multiple times higher than the rest of Europe. And in the Staying Alive document it mentioned developing or having a leaflet for patients so they could get informed decision making and what treatments offered and what benefits were. This was then backed up when the 10 MAC standards were developed. Now the MAC standards are medication assisted treatment standards. There were just 10 of them that Scotland have launched in the last year and we're now actively working towards them. The standards were found by an initial 10 standards and then they went out for consultation including peer consultation and they came back and they were formulated and standard two of this looks at informed patient choice of treatment. Then when we were looking through the leaflets that the addiction services have and all the drug companies have and all the other organisations nobody had a single quick leaflet. There was lots of leaflets available all in individual treatments. There were some were very very technical, some were very simple but nothing that combined everything all together. So our alcohol and drug partnership in Lanarkshire were really keen that we had this in place both to tick the boxes for the Staying Alive document when we're tackling drugs related deaths but also it ticked off the MAC standards. Number two where we could give information to patients for them to go away and actually have a think about what they would like to be treated with. So the ADP obviously very keen on using this and I set off trying to find something I had the individual leaflets I didn't have anything combined. So as I said the specialist pharmacist we have a group of us so we all communicate regularly and discuss things. So went to them to see if anybody else had a leaflet that combined all the treatments that nobody did. Then went back to the Drug Death Task Force at the Scottish Government and local ADP and drug related death groups as well and nobody in Scotland had a combined leaflet on different treatment options. So then had to cast the net a little bit wider in contact with some colleagues down south and that's when I was quite fortunate that one of the people I had reached out to recently reviewed the Euro End Put leaflet on the OAT Guide which Matt had been involved in developing. This was great because I met Matt previously and would work on a couple of conferences in the past. Reached out to Matt, Matt came straight back. It was still at the final stages and Matt and the Euro End Put group were quite happy that we took the leaflet and adapted it for some of the terms were more or less appropriate for the Scottish audience but also some of the contents and the contacts we changed them. So once we had the finalised leaflet which changed it not significantly quite a few minor changes but it was more just as I said it was some of the wording that was used and we have kept the essence of the leaflet written by peers for peers. We contacted a couple of the organisations such as Advocacy, the Drugs Scottish Drugs Forum, the Drug Death Task Force and Scottish Families Affected by Drugs and we've got their agreement to have their contact details onto the back of the leaflet making it much more for Scotland but it takes basically the patient through a number of the different options and treatments that are available and we've also kept in some of the ones that are available in Europe but not available in Scotland such as slow release morphine but again that's something that we might eventually move towards so the fact that we've already highlighted that this could be a potential treatment and a leaflet it means that we're open to discuss that with the patients going forward. It's great to hear about how the resources are being used. So just turning to Paula Kearney from Ireland as our last speaker she's a community development worker who has a history of incarceration and is now a human rights and drug policy advocate pushing for better access to health and rights for women who use drugs. Thanks Paula. I'll apologise before I start because I've been not in a city Dublin accent so if anyone can't understand put your hand up and I will slow down a bit. As it says in my name's Paula Kearney I'm community development worker from not in a city Dublin and I'm passionate about human rights and drug policy changes for people who use drugs but particularly for women who use drugs. For over 20 years in my life I was also an active addiction myself and I have been on every OIT available in Ireland from Fiseptone, Metadone, Dahola, even Bilvedal but we're very fortunate in Ireland that we do have OATs because I do recognise there are many countries that don't so I wouldn't have been able to move on from using listed drugs if I hadn't got the option of OATs so I wouldn't have been able to go on to university and get the qualifications required for me to walk in the sector that I do. I'm very nervous when I'm talking. As a walking woman and a mother I've had major struggles with moving on in my career regarding treatment like having to get up every day and go to clinics so the fact that Bilvedal is available in Ireland I know it's only available on trial at the moment but it allows for people to move on their lives and not have that daily struggle if getting up and going to clinics and sort of taking that part of someone's life so it has had major improvements it means that you no longer have to explain whether it's to your boss, whatever making them excuses to go to clinics people can get up and move on in their life but up until last year I walked in an amazing service in the Nartana city called The Sale Project and it's a project that works with women who use drugs or women that are in recovery from drug use but I've seen force hand do you know the extra struggles for women that they have when it comes to getting recovery like women who use drugs that judge much more harshly than men are that's stigmatized really badly and then if they're a mother that's stigmatized even further it's just an extra level of shame that's placed upon them and then they end up internalizing that shame which makes it very hard for them to move on in their lives excuse me because of that stigma it frequently leads to them staying in their addiction because they know that once they register in an OAT clinic that light been shunned on them and then shunned on their mother in skills as well and it's not like it's like as if a person who uses drugs is automatically seen as a bad mother when that's not the case but flexibility is also an issue for women many women who try to enter residential treatment they face barriers because they're usually the carer of the family even in cases where they may be parenting with a partner do you know that there is two-parent household there's usually an addiction on both sides and the women end up I'm sure any of us that are mothers here know that regardless of what we're doing we still have to get up get the kids to school if I'm talking too fast just kind of let me know but you know getting the kids to school doing the housework and for when a country woman who uses drugs a lot of times she's also the breadwinner in the family she's the one who earn the money you know and for it like to feed our kids but also to feed our habit but also our partner's habit in many cases as well and that definitely leaves her in a very precarious situation because particularly if a woman is on methadone and she's gone to the clinic five to seven days a week she can't really take up employment so she's held in that space and it leaves her in a precarious situation because then she has to sort of use informal ways of getting money and for many it could be shoplifting it leaves sex walk and that again leaves her vulnerable to HIV hepatitis C and all the issues that come along with her sorry most of the time excuse me for a minute got lost but as well it leaves her open to jail time you know I mean criminality and jail time but as well now like a lot of the women that I would have walked with would have been starting to get a bit of stability in their life and then they'd end up getting into a little bit of trouble going into jail and that stability is taken from them because they may have been on the weekly takeouts in the clinic but then once thank you but I'm a bit nervous I'll be around to look for shakes but then once she ends up going into prison that weekly takeout that she's had again that bit of sort of normality into her life is taken from her so if she's missing clinics or anything like that there's a risk of her relapsing when she comes out and as well as that there's a risk of her tolerance being low as well and all the usual issues that come but if there's young children you know what I mean and the woman does miss the clinic again them risks of relapsing women who use drugs as well they experience a lot more gender based violence than women in general but there's a different view on them they're all not seen as complicit victims they're not seen as a woman who has gone through domestic abuse or a woman who has been sexually abused or anything they're not seen as innocent victims and this stops women from actually reporting because if they feel that when they report to the police again there's the chances of social workers and all women are less likely to report so there needs to be a sort of really understanding of the different issues that women have you know like them things that you really need to take into account that it's not just as straightforward as it is for men who use drugs do you feel that is like even when it comes down to reporting the police place a lot of blame on the woman as well because a lot of times the argument may be over drugs or whatever so they're just extra barriers that women do face that's what I'm saying the drug use comes under scrutiny if they do report it to the guards and again they have to start proving themselves and that whole part of them being a victim from them yeah but sorry about this I'm a little bit mixed up on me ting I should have just read I hate reading I get a little bit lost but yeah so as I was saying the women who do use drugs and are going through domestic abuse in Ireland there's no escape for them because if a woman is on OAT or if a woman is using drugs women's shelters do not take women in Ireland when it comes to drug use I don't know whether that's an issue everywhere but in Ireland they don't take the men and that even comes down to a woman being unmeted on so there needs to be services tailored to the needs of women tailored to the extra barriers that women who use drugs face and there's not enough of them I'll speak for Ireland because I don't really know as well as that there is also a huge homeless crisis now in Ireland at the moment and the negative repercussions for women who use drugs within that is really bad because a lot of women end up in emergency accommodation and if they may be talked into I'm going to use this voluntarily handing over the care of their children to family members sorry one more minute to family members and all but then when it comes to them getting their children back because they need stability in order to get their children back but if they're in an emergency accommodation and they haven't got care of their children they no longer fit the criteria when it comes to the council for their three bedroom house or whatever is required so then they're going to catch 22 that they cannot go on and take their children back unless there's stability there but then the other one that the children have done so apology for all that is running me up there see I didn't hear any re-speech but yeah as I was saying at the beginning we are very fortunate in Ireland to have OAT services but women should be able to reveal the treatment of their choice like as Richie was saying I'd be part of the service users rights and action myself and there are many women who are being given methadone and feel that the doctor doesn't listen to them when they say they want to detox that autonomy is never there for them they can never make them choices themselves or even if they want to choose other OAT services within them because as much as we have different alternatives it's predominantly methadone because that's a cheaper version as well they feel that you don't have a say in their own treatment plan doctors need to give some autonomy to service users and allow them other forms of OAT and when drug policy and drug treatment policies are being created there needs to be a focus on the additional needs of women who use drugs childcare services need to be provided so that you know women can't seek support but it also ensures that going to an OAT service isn't part of a child's everyday life do you know that and there's nothing wrong with bringing a child to a clinic but you don't want that for a child every single day and I'll end with this this year's team for International Women's Day was to embrace equity and we need to consider that there are additional needs for women so we want to have a fairer policy for women who use drugs we need to embrace equity and provide the right supports for people sorry for going on I think we did a really good job with time we're pretty much exactly on time so thank you so much for all the speakers for all the excellent interventions and also staying within the time frame I think there are a lot of important insights and it showed the range of value that peers bring in terms of research also providing technical resources and technical expertise that is grounded in lived experience I just finally just really want to emphasize your point as well Dr. Richard Healy when you talked about the ambiguity so I also think as peers we are caught in this of course being really grateful and appreciative of having access which many people do not have it is life changing but I think we are invested in critiquing it because we want to make it better because there are times where it can be very punitive and all about control so just to emphasize the importance of partnerships working across all stakeholders to really improve the way OAT program services live it designed and delivered and just thank you your input as well for this excellent side event Could I have one minute just came to my mind as a doctor you referred quite a lot in your relationship with a doctor and so forth and I have to say that stigma exists not only to people receiving services but also doctors working within those services there are times in certain countries that are not looked at as good as the rest of our colleagues that's number one number two is that unless you are well trained in your trade in your science you can be easily guided by your own preconceptions and you can easily be afraid of the person you have in front of you you might not be confident enough of how to mediate between risks from or side effects from the education or how to navigate through the system so education and training of the doctors with health professionals providing the services is crucial and is something that we can work to advocate you can work together to advocate on that and the third has to do with the system where these services are operating if the system is looking for a mistake from the side of the professional to criticize them and take the licensing way then of course they will be very very conservative into cut corners or take an initiative to address your needs so it is not you and us who are brought together in to promote in better services better training and better understanding and collaboration and thank you for inviting me this amazing event