STORIES
THAT MATTER.
Perspective CHAnGEs Everything.
Dr. Sara Davidson is a family physician and addiction medicine specialist whose career is rooted in one belief: every story begins with a person, not a problem.
MEET SARA
After years working alongside people at greatest risk from the unregulated toxic drug supply in Fredericton, she founded River Stone Recovery Centre, a harm reduction clinic that became known across Canada for its patient centred, no waiting list approach to opioid use disorder treatment.
Her work there helped hundreds of clients rebuild stability, housing, AND health.
Sara is now channelling that same passion for destigmatizing addiction into storytelling. She has authored the upcoming novel Even Monsters Need to Eat and is developing the dramedy series Mostly Fine, both drawing on her clinical experience to offer audiences an honest, human, and often funny look at addiction and recovery. She recently completed Harvard Medical School's Media and Medicine program to sharpen her craft as she brings these stories to a wider audience.
SARA'S MISSION
Fiction reaches what clinical conversations cannot. This is storytelling in service of a more compassionate, less judgmental understanding of addiction.
Even Monsters
Need to Eat
The Upcoming Novel
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This story includes depictions of child sexual abuse, addiction, overdose, and homelessness. If any of this feels heavy and you need to talk to someone, Wellness Together Canada offers free, confidential mental health and substance use support 24/7 at 1-866-585-0445 or wellnesstogether.ca
Even Monsters Need to Eat follows Mona Murphy across more than a decade, starting when she is just thirteen years old. It moves through grief, addiction, homelessness, and motherhood, but at its core it is about what it takes to build a life once survival is no longer the only goal.
Even Monsters Need to Eat is a literary novel about trauma, addiction, queer identity, and belonging. It explores the lasting impact of grief and abuse while resisting narratives of redemption, focusing instead on the imperfect, ongoing work of building a life worth inhabiting.
The Dramedy Series
MOSTLY FINE
Mostly Fine is a 13 episode ensemble dramedy set against the backdrop of Atlantic Canada's toxic drug crisis. Think Shameless meets Maid, with the same ensemble humanity that made Orange Is the New Black so beloved.
Funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Mostly Fine explores belonging, class, grief, and stigma, and the stories people tell themselves to survive.
Drawing on her years of frontline experience, Sara keeps the series rooted in character rather than advocacy, developing it in consultation with people with lived and living experience to keep every story authentic and human.
Pitch deck available upon request.
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