This series interviews experts in the addictions field, with a focus on evidence-based, cutting-edge approaches to substance abuse problems such as: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), pharmacotherapy, harm reduction, and many, many more. Your host Kenneth Anderson is the founder and CEO of The HAMS…
Our guest is Peter Ferentzy, Ph. D., author of the novel The Corrective, a realistic picture of how hard drug users control their use and outgrow addiction which serves as a healthy antidote to media demonization and rehab hype about the wages of drugs being death.
Our guest is Dr. Susan Sered, author of Can't Catch a Break. We will be talking about homeless women, addiction, and the medicalization of deviance.
Christopher Moraff talks about the opioid crises, overdose, methadone, buprenorphine, narcan, and the failure of rehab.
Our guest this evening is Holly Whitaker, founder of Hip Sobriety.
Our guest is Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol
Our guest this evening is Mark Sobell, Ph. D., who will talk about the guided Self Change program he operates with Linda Sobell Ph. D. at Nova Southeastern University in Florida for moderate drinking.
Our guest this evening is Lauren Jessell, LMSW, lead author of the paper "Sexual Violence in the Context of Drug Use Among Young Adult Opioid Users in New York City."
Our guest this evening is Carol Katz Beyer, co-founder of Families for Sensible Drug Policy.
Our guest this evening is Stanley D. Glick , Ph.D. , M.D., Professor Emeritus at Albany Medical College, who will be talking about his research on ibogaine and the ibogaine congener 18-MC (18-Methoxycoronaridine) and their potential as anti-addiction drugs.
Can a leopard change its spots? Is an ex addict the best person to be an addiction counselor? Our guest tonight, Trina Hope, Ph. D. of the University of Oklahoma discusses the stability of the quality of deviance over time and the Texas addiction treatment scandals where "clean" counselors engaged in rampantly dishonest behaviors.
Ibogaine has been long touted as a potential cure for heroin and other addictions. Premiere ibogaine researcher, Deborah C. Mash, Ph.D., Professor of Neurology and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami, talks about ibogaine safety and efficacy. Ibogaine is a substance derived from the iboga plant used in religious rituals of the Bwiti people of Africa because of its hallucinogenic properties.
Our guest this afternoon is Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.
Our guest this Morning is Marc Lewis, Ph. D., author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease. This amazing book is chock full of the latest neuroscience, telling not only how brains get addicted to drugs but also how they recover and heal, showing that neuroplasticity is a two-edged sword. A great antidote to the drug war propaganda put forth by NIDA.
Our guest this evening is Catherine Hiller, author of Just Say Yes: a marijuana memoir. Ms. Hiller shares with us a cultural/personal history of the past fifty years of cannabis.
Our guests this evening are Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Lisa Raville, Executive Director of the Harm Reduction Action Center in Denver Colorado.
Our guest today is Patty McCarthy Metcalf, executive director of Faces and Voices of Recovery. We will be discussing the meaning of recovery and ways for the harm reduction movement and the recovery movement to work together.
Our guest this evening is Meghan Ralston, harm reduction manager for the Drug Policy Alliance and author of many articles including I'm Breaking Up With the Word 'Addict' and I Hope You'll Do the Same.
Our guest today is Matthew Lebowitz of Yale University who well be discussing the negative impact of biological explanations for mental disorders on clinicians’ empathy.
Our guest this afternoon is Debra Rothschild, Ph. D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU and harm reduction psychotherapist in private practice in New York City.
Our guest is Sean X. Luo, M. D., Ph. D. of Columbia University who will be talking about his research on precision medicine, connectomics, and addiction and how they relate to risk and reward.
Our guest this evening is Rebecca Tiger, Ph. D. author of Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System. Dr. Tiger is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College.
Our guest this afternoon is Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. We will be discussing the similarity of addictions to facebook or games like Angry Birds to drug addictions. We will also address the moral imperative of using addicting apps as a means to help people improve their lives rather than simply generate revenue for the developer.
Our guest this evening is Mark Aronoff, MA, LMHC, author of One Toke: A Survival Guide for Teens. We will be discussing pot, adolescents, and safe use.
Our guest this afternoon is Marcus Bachhuber. MD, whose research has shown that states with medical marijuana have lower rates of opioid overdose deaths. The hypothesis is that patients are using cannabis as a painkiller instead of opioids.
Our guest this evening is Andrew Meacham, author of Selling Serenity: Life Among the Recovery Stars who will be talking about the big business boom of 12 stepping in the 80s and 90s which continues to this day.
Our guest this evening is Jerry Otero who will talk about his time with drugfree.org (formerly The Partnership for a Drug Free America) and how they have adopted Narcan and harm reduction policies. He will also talk about his time in 12 step, how he left, and his current work at the Drug Policy Alliance.
Our guest this afternoon is David Sheff, author of Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy. We will be discussing the addiction treatment industry and what it means to be evidence based.
Our guest this afternoon is Shaun Shelly who heads up and manages the addictions arm of Hope House Counselling Centre in Cape Town South Africa. He also writes the blog Addiction Information.
Our guest this evening is Eliza Player, author of Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within: An Addiction Memoir.
Our guest this evening is Carl Hart Ph. D., professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Columbia University and author of High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.
Our guest this evening is Jenna Hollenstein, author of Drinking To Distraction. You don't need to hit bottom to decide to quit drinking.
Our guest this evening is Adam Sledd who writes for The Fix as well as having his own blog. We will be talking about the compatibility of drug legalization and recovery.
Our guest today is Bernadette Pauly, Ph. D. of the school of nursing at the University of Victoria, BC, who will be talking about Homelessness, Harm Reduction, and Social Justice.
Our guest this evening is Peter Myers, Ph D, author of Becoming An Addictions Counselor: A Comprehensive Text.
Our guest this evening is Michael Pond, author of The Couch of Willingness: An Alcoholic Therapist Battles the Bottle and a Broken Recovery System who will be discussing his own personal experiences within the substance abuse treatment system and what is wrong with it.
Our guest this evening is Sacha Z. Scoblic, contributor to The New Republic, The Fix, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Reader's Digest, and The New York Times, and author of Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety. We will be discussing disease theory, choice theory, methadone and buprenorphine maintenance therapy, 12 step, harm reduction, rehab, addiction and other topics.
Our guest this evening is BJ Fogg, Ph D of Stanford University who will be talking about the tiny changes model of behavioral change.
Our guest this evening is Wendy McEntyre who is fighting to establish laws to regulate and license sober living houses. Wendy's son Jarrod died of a heroin overdose in a sober living house.
Researchers have long known that nicotine has a beneficial effect on reducing the symptoms of schizophrenia. Over 90% of schizophrenics smoke. Our guest Helen Redmond discusses the benefits of e-cigarettes as a safe nicotine delivery device for schizophrenics. Redmond is the author of the article Here’s Why We Should Give E-Cigarettes to Mentally Ill People.
Our guest this evening is Jeffrey Junig MD who will be talking about suboxone.
Our guest this evening is Eddie Einbinder, author of How To Have Fun And Not Die and producer of the film series Play Safe.
Our guest today is Lucy Rocca, founder of the social networking site Soberistas and co-author of The Sober Revolution: Women Calling Time on Wine o’clock.
Our guest this evening is Shane Schleger, author of the Slate article Fifteen Years Smoking Crack: Life in the middle ground between total abstinence and rock bottom and host of the podcast Dope Stories.
Our guest this evening is Katherine van Wormer, MSSW, Ph. D., professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa and author of Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective.
Our guest this evening is Lance Dodes, MD, author of The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry. Dr. Dodes is a Training and Supervising analyst emeritus with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and recently retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Our guest today is Rachel Black, author of Sober is the New Black: A Then and Now Account of Life Beyond Booze.
Our guest this evening is Lynn Paltrow, JD, Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. We will be discussing drug use and addiction during pregnancy and the Alicia Beltran case--a Wisconsin women jailed for refusing to take the opiate buprenorphine.
Our guest this evening is Pete Soderman, SMART facilitator and author of Powerless No Longer: Reprogramming Your Addictive Behavior.
Our guest this evening is Nicole Kosanke, PhD of the Center for Motivation and Change. She is a co-author, with Jeffry Foote and Carrie Wilkens, of Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change. We will be discussing the CRAFT approach for working with loved ones who have addictions.
Our guest this afternoon is David Yusko, Psy D, co-author of the paper Concurrent naltrexone and prolonged exposure therapy for patients with comorbid alcohol dependence and PTSD: a randomized clinical trial.
Our guest this evening is Stanton Peele, Ph D, JD, author of Recover!: Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life with The PERFECT Program and founder of the Life Process Program for overcoming addictions.
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