SAFE RECOVERY

A discussion about Chapter 5 which is usually read before every AA meeting. What is truth and what parts are outright lies. Monica and Evelyn tear it up  !

30 min show about  when you leave AA, but all you had were stepper friends. Join Monica Richardson  for a live show.

Steven Slate author of Freedom Model, The Fredoom Model for addictions : Escape the Treatment & Recovery.  join Monica RIchardson - Host- filmmaker of The 13th Step  documentary, blogger and podcaster.

The 13th Step is a ground breaking documentary film  released in 2016 on AMAZON Prime. The 13th Step appeared in  Cannes and was exibited in the Documentary Corner in 2015. The film won best Documentary in The Beverly Hills Film Festival. A story that uncovers sex offenders, violent offenders and old timers who prey on innocent, vulnerable,  AA members. Monica Richardson the Director,  and long time  AA member,  left in 2011 to make the film after  desperately  trying to make things safer in AA. AA World Headquarters in New York City declined all attempts to be interviewed.

Marty Mann, the first  successful woman in AA already was living a life of the rich and famous . Marty  was in the marketing and  adversting business and... her lover , Priscilla, worked at Vogue. Many connections were made for Marty and Bill Wilson through this high society ,  wealthy  hook ups. Still, long after they were gone, Hollywood was still pushing AA - After 80 years of  AA- non stop propaganda  there are  some 95 % of those who go who  fail, die or kill themsleves by AA standards. Where did  all the love and light go ? Why is AA still the only answer  in Hollywood movies and TV shows?   Why do they still push AA so hard. Good  question. Lets find out. There is a long list of movies that are straight up propaganda. The Lost Weekend, The Days of Wine and Roses, Flight with Denzel Washington, A Star is Born, Euphoria, Mom on CBS, When a Man Loves a Woman, Everything Must Go with Will Ferrell, The Way Back, 28 Days , Crazy Heart, Clean and Sober, A Million Little Pieces, One Little Pill, The 13th Step.

Did your sponsees or sponsors get mad when you left AA? What is the triggering factor?  Join Monica Richardson for a 1 hour show -

AA 's Big Book has alot of tall orders in it. This chapter maybe is the most confusing and strange. Join Monica Richardson for a live show  as we tear it apart.

Join host Monica Richardson for an hour of talk radio, and you too can call into Blog Talk Radio, Safe Recovery  to disect  the truth about AA Big Book and whats true and what is not.  Share your ideas, opinions and criticisms.

Into Action - as we dive into Chapter 6 of the Big Book of AA we find a wee bit more lies.  Join us with callers from around the world as we tear up the BB of Alcoholics Anonymous. Join Monica Richardson and many other ex steppers who have left and are free from the tides that bind one who joins the 12 step giant.

Join Monica Richardson for a new 2021 Podcast discussing the problems  in the  1935 AA Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book.

Join Us for a 1 hour show - call in live to speak with host Monica RIchardson  to speak up and out - Joining forces to get legal action going to fight back Rehab and Sober Living run and operated by Two Hatter AA / NA members - No more - will we stay silent . #metoo, #TIMESUP, #exposeAA, #quietNoMORE,

The HIMS Nightmare is a practical guide to surviving the “Human Intervention Motivation Study” program for pilots who are in recovery from substance abuse, or who are sucked into the program despite not being addicted to mood-altering substances. The HIMS program is not what it is portrayed to be. Developed in 1974 as a means for returning substance-abusers to the cockpit, HIMS has grown to become a monster intended to put as many pilots as possible under the complete control of their employers, who may have their required FAA medical certificates revoked at any time, for any reason. HIMS relies almost entirely on outmoded “Twelve Step Facilitation Therapy,” which is itself based almost solely on the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA was formed in 1935 and has changed little since. Although the rate of recovery for AA alone is abysmal, HIMS claims high rates of recovery which are, in truth, the result of participants who are threatened with loss of the careers, and intrusive monitoring requirements which may stretch in duration to include a pilot’s entire career. https://www.amazon.com/HIMS-Nightmare-Surviving-Substance-Re-Education-ebook/dp/B08BS5WM5X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=HIMS+nightmare&qid=1593403684&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

Lawyers discuss the reality of being forced to attend AA - AA based rehab and even forced to talk their "talk" so they can fly. How is this possible. Listen in for the facts behind the madness. A Lawyer from Cleveland, Ohio will join me to discuss the new movement to push back and stop teh coercion. The FAA just made it a requirement that all pilots in the HIMS Program will be forced to go to AA meetings for the "Life" of theri flying careers now ! Not so FAST we say. Larry is licensed psychologist and attorney.  He obtained his Doctor of Psychology in 1981 and his JD in 1992.  As a psychologist, Larry's practice focused on the behavioral aspects of chronic pain syndromes.  He was the Clinical Director of several multidisciplinary chronic pain rehabilitation programs in the 1980's.  These programs addressed the disability related behaviors and the opiate and sedative dependence that impacted chronic pain syndromes.   As an attorney, his focus was on medical negligence claims.  He represented a number of families who lost loved ones as a result of accidental overdoses of prescription opiate medications.  

Zach Rhoads- author Addiction Specialist.  Monica Richardson is a host of podcast Safe Recovery. Zach is an author and educational consultant working with families in Vermont. He is also an addiction coach in Stanton Peele’s Life Process Program His book Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense Instead of “Disease” Therapy (with Stanton Peele) will be published by Upper Access Press in May 2019. He hosts the podcast FSDP Presents on behalf of Families for Sensible Drug Policy.   Zach Rhoads is a consultant for school children who encounter life problems--along with families and teachers who are stymied by their failures to reach these children. Zach developed this empathy as a child who wasn't successful at school. Moreover, in his 20s he developed a heroin addiction, which--after several years and a near-death experience--he left behind. Zach is a coach and family systems developer with Dr. Stanton Peele's online addiction program, the Life Process Program.

Blog Talk Radio Safe Recovery podcast created by Filmmaker, activist, victims advocate,  Monica Richardson hosts this 1 hour show- this week with author Stanton Peele. Join us as we take on the Addiction Recovery Industry. Stanton Peele, Ph. D., J.D., is a licensed psychologist, attorney, practicing psychotherapist and the author of books and articles on the subject of alcoholism, addiction and addiction treatment. Wikipedia Stanton Peele has been a cutting-edge figure in the addiction field for four decades.  Since publishing (with Archie Brodsky) Love and Addiction in 1975, Stanton has been a leader in virtually every development in the field: that 12-step, AA treatment is not the be-all and end-all and that practical life-management therapies are most effective; that people's self-empowerment, values, and purpose in life (as opposed to seeing themselves as powerless) can be the light out of the tunnel; and that people generally don't get better all at once, but make gradual improvements (called harm reduction) in their lives that lead them out of addiction.  Along the way, Stanton has written 12 books (including The Meaning of Addiction, Diseasing of America, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction, and Addiction-Proof Your Child) and 250 professional articles, won numerous awards (including from the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs and the Drug Policy Alliance -- the leading drug policy reform organization in America), and created the Life Process Program for addiction treatment, which continues to be utilized worldwide. Ilse Thompson, co-founder of the blog Stinkin-Thinkin: Muckraking the 12 Step Treatment Industry, is a writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. 

In this 30 minute show, Monica Richardson, filmmaker and victims advocate will discuss how to stop all coercion. How can you fight back . Recently a nurse in Vancouver fought back and won that fight. Pilots, nurses and doctors all over the country and coming toegther to stop coercion to a 1930's religious lay person support group , with a 5 % success rate. #stopthemaddness. #notoaa, #exposeaa, Educate yourself on Civil Rights, Human Rights, HIPPA Rights, Religious Freedom, and The Disabilities Act. Did you know that if you are a person with AA language "Alcoholism" Alcohol Use Disorder,  you now are considered to have a disability. DId you know that you were disabled because your drinking is problematic or was. Whose Idea was this? How does Health Insurance benefit from this.

Join Monica Richardson for  a 30 minute podcast with Board Member from LifeRING-  Byron Kerr  has been active in LifeRing for approximately 8 years. He has served on the LifeRing Board of Directors for almost 6 years. He has served as executive director for one year and was recently appointed to another one year term. Life RING is a non 12 step self help support group for alcohol or drug issues . LifeRING  is available online and in some cities there are face to face meetings -

AA is an  ideology? How has this affected our society as a whole in America.  Scientology and EST also experienced a huge boost of members in the late 60's to mid 1970's. There are similarities  within these groups -cults. In this episode we will take a look at the similarities and the group think and how these and the "Human Potential Movement" changed America.  We as Americans, were once fiercely independent, creative and strong willed. So what went wrong. Join Monica Richardson for a show exposing the truth about how deeply AA is embedded in our culture, society and legal system by its crazy members. The 13th Step exposes AA . Available now on Vimeo, AMAZON and Tubi.

A one hour show with host Monica RIchardson and author and Professor Joe Miller. COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) - April 2, local author and associate professor of English at Columbus State University, Joe Miller has released a new book, US of AA: How the Twelve Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism. Miller is the author of 2006's Cross-X: The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education, which won the William Rockhill Nelson Award and Harry Chapin Award for nonfiction in 2007, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Starand Publishers Weekly. Now, the US of AA takes readers through the history of the Alcoholics Anonymous program, offering for "the first time, a complete expose" of AA and "how it became America's de facto cure" for alchol rehabilitation. Miller, an investigative reporter and author, writes the history of the Twelve Step program from its inception, following the beginnings of the program through the early days of the program founders to the present day. Starting in 1934, Miller details how AA became the "defacto treatment policy for alcoholism in the U.S.," beginning with its "quasi-religious" origins. Utilizing years of research, Miller's book "explores the science and politics of alcoholism by bringing to life the characters that played pivotal roles in its dark history." Miller will have a book signing and reading event for US of AA on April 20 at 10:00 a.m. at the CSU Bookstore at RiverPark Campus.

Join us for a one hour show - about EVO - and incredible Intensive Out-Patient Clinic in Venice , CA- Founder Koorosh Rassekh offers compassion , Science and Harm Reduction for many sustance use issues. Koorosh Rassekh, MMFT Founder “Our work is to remain curious about the human experience and unlocking our individual and collective possibilities.” Having confronted addiction in his own life, Koorosh founded Evo Health and Wellness with the vision to break the stigma around mental health and create a world of healthier people, families, and communities. As a trained therapist, Koorosh integrates a humanistic approach and mindfulness into his therapy and coaching work. At the Matrix Institute on Addictions, Koorosh specialized in working with young adults dealing with drugs, alcohol, and addiction issues. As Director of Mindfulness at Alternatives Behavioral Health, he helped develop a program to support clients to successfully adopt their desired lifestyle, whether abstinence or moderation. Koorosh holds a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy and Management from the University of Southern California (USC). He has undergone extensive training in multiple therapeutic approaches, including: Assertive Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA), Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA), Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Motivational Interviewing, and numerous meditation and mindfulness techniques. Koorosh has a love for biking, surfing, meditation, and yoga. He has a five-year-old son who also keeps him learning and growing.    

Monica RIchardson and Wendy McEntyre will discuss the rotten rehab Industry and take some calls from around the USA> JarrodsLaw.Org was established to create awareness of dangers those facing addiction face and to pave the way for real change in providing oversight and accountability in the addiction treatment industry and safe sober living homes. https://jarrodslaw.org/, JarrodsLaw is currently working with members of the United States Congress through pending legislation, HR 4684, Ensuring Access  to Quality Sober Living Act of 2018, which will direct the United States Department of Health and Human Services to implement fail safes in sober living homes where there is no regulation or oversight.  Sober living homes should be required to report deaths to the DHCS in the state where the deaths occur.JarrodsLaw was founded after my 23 year old son Jarrod died a sober-living home called “The Safe House”. I was determined to find out how and why he died. During that journey I discovered that there is no oversight or accountability of Sober Living Homes on either a federal, state, or local level. JarrodsLaw is a protector and guardian against unsafe and illegal practices in Sober-Living Homes and Treatment Centers and will fight hard to make legislative changes nationwide to prevent these unnecessary deaths. 

10 top questions to ask when you or a loved one goes to inpatient rehab and sober living.  Wendy McEntyre Public Safety Advocate Facebook.com/Wendy.McEntyre.5 www.JarrodsLaw.Org and my dear friend will join Monica RIchardson for a 30 min show on questions to ask when deciding on a rehab - IOP or Sober Living. We will break down what is Sober Living - IOP Inpatinet and What the heck is a non medical detox and who regualtes these places - or better yet - who doesnt regualte them - and why not? Over drug testing is a scam .

Join host -Monica Richardson  to discuss how to deprogram from AA and its thinking- From Chapter 5 from the Big Book of AA, the preamble, and the 12 traditions which are read at every meeting. Over and over again you listen to something that was written by one man in 1935- published in 1939. There were only 100 members. So why in 2019 are the same things read as if they are gospel? Are the things read the truth? Why do people just accept what is read as fact- when its not. Even the Catholic Church and Buddhism has updated their books over the past 50 years. Why doesn't AA ? Does AA think they are that special? Join us for a deep discussion about the how and whys of the AA Big Book readings. Monica Richardson a long time member left AA after 36 years in May of 2011. She knows how to deprogram.

Jim Breslo creator of The Hidden Truth Show joins Monica Richardson - host, creator of Podcast Safe Recovery and Filmmaker of The 13th Step discuss Jim's show on his deep dives into AA, The Las Vegas shooter, The Transgender Movement  and the failure of the Bullet Train in California  and much more. Jim is a former civil rights attorney, public company president, and radio broadcaster.  He hosted the Jim Breslo Show late nights on KRLA 870 AM in Los Angeles and Casino Talk with Louie Anderson weekends on 97.1 Free FM in Los Angeles. Currently, he is host of the Hidden Truth Show and founder of RealKast, a new media company.  He has appeared as a legal expert on CNN, Fox, CRTV, KNX, KABC, KFI, and KRLA.   He recently gained acclaim for landing the first ever sit down interviews with Bruce Paddock, brother of the Las Vegas shooter, and Sophia Hutchins, the transgender partner of Caitlyn Jenner, on his Hidden Truth Show. He was a partner at the international law firm Seyfarth Shaw, defending companies and individuals against alleged civil rights violations.  He left the firm to become President of Diamond Game, a publicly traded gaming company which provides lottery machines and tickets to numerous state lotteries in the US and Canada. Jim is the author of 12 patented inventions in the gaming space. Jim graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine (where he was the voice of the Anteater basketball team and host of Freedom of Voice talk show on KUCI-FM), and received his law degree from Northwestern University, serving as an editor of the Law Review.

A show about the Addiction Treatment Industry- facts about how dangerous most  rehabs and sober livings can be - They are engaged in  the body brokering, illegal drug testing, insurance fraud and much more. With expert Danielle and host Monica Richardson we cover the basics in part 1.

Every day in California someone checks into a Sober Living. Some think they are going to get "treatment" . Some know all that is happening there is a bed and a roof over ones head. But if you are a vulnerable man or woman , some darker trades are happening below the surface. Sex Exploitation, trading sex for rent, and abusing power of AA "time" . Both Straight and gay persons are effected.  Join Monica RIchardson and Patrick Gavin Church for an indepth one hour interview.

In 2010, with seven years of struggle-free sobriety, Teresa knew that the traditional path of getting and living sober was not helping enough people. She auditioned for the Oprah Winfrey Network to create a show traveling the country to learn and share how others got and lived in recovery without twelve steps and alcoholics anonymous. Oprah didn’t call, but that didn’t stop her. Teresa had hopped on her pink cloud and rode out of the rooms of alcoholics anonymous to save her sobriety and knew there had to be something she could do to help others. In 2012, she founded Pink Cloud Coaching and started promoting, advocating, and coaching women to break free from the need to misuse alcohol without identifying as an alcoholic and become inspired to go after life-sober instead. She has since published Wholly Sober – How I Stopped Thinking About Drinking and Started Loving My Life and ready to release her second book, The Primed Drinker in which she explores the idea that the current path of recovery is creating alcohol”ism” – a belief system that hinders more than it helps. Today with over fifteen years of sobriety and has helped thousands of women through coaching, writing, speaking, and social media, Teresa is thrilled with the emerging scientific evidence that supports her philosophy and her work. https://www.pinkcloudcoaching.com/

Part 2 of rehab series on what to look for when sending a loved one to rehab or going there yourself.Daniel and Monica Richardson explore the pitfalls and dangers of 98 % of all rehab in the USA , and the UK . Make sure the rehab  is in a Commercial Zoned location .  Has a Doctor and nurse on location 24/7 if you need a detox from alcohol or Benzos.  ASK if it is based on 12 step or AA based. Stay away from AA / 12 step based rehabs. AA is based on 1935 religious conversion ideology. ASK FOR SMART RECOVERY, MAT and HARM Reduction  with CBT and Trained PhD's or MFCC so that you and your loved ones are treated by professionals and not ex addicts .

Maia Szalavitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, which is widely recognized as an important advance in thinking about the nature of addiction and how to cope with it, personally and politically. Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids was the first to expose the damage caused by the “tough love” business that dominates adolescent addiction treatment. She has written for numerous publications from High Times to the New York Times, including TIME, the Washington Post, the Guardian, VICE, Scientific American, and the Atlantic— and she is author or co-author of five other books. With Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, she co-wrote the classic work on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and also Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential— And Endangered. She has won awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Drug Policy Alliance, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology for her 30 years of groundbreaking writing on addiction, drug policy and neuroscience.

A  one hour show  with Monica Richardson and ex AA members calling in to tell us how and why they left. How were they treated. Why did they leave. Did they lose some freinds? Is life Better. Do we drink or not drink now. How can we change rehab riddled with 12 step "ism". How can we get Science and MAT to help those addicted and get religious ideolgy from 1935 out of treatment in america.  How can we get Hollywood to tell a non AA addiction story?

Join Host and Filmmaker Monica Richardson for a one hour show . Monica and an ex stepper Steve will talk about what  its like to leave AA after decades. 

Todd is a graduate of the Film program at Full Sail University. While in school he found his niche in editing and post production. He currently works in New York City as a professional editor – working on projects that range from advertisements, music videos, short films and documentaries. The Last Stop is his first journey into writing, producing and directing a feature length documentary. The inspiration for the film came from his own experiences as a teenager, and as a graduate of the Élan program. Mark Babitz Growing up in the 70's, Mark Babitz faced abuse and neglect from his adopted family in Chicago, after numerous run ins with the law an Illinois court placed him in the Elan treatment center in Parsonsfield, Maine. Mark went on to form The Core Campaign Group with Matt Hoffman and a few other Elan alumni in 2009. Mark is on the Maines Missing Children alliance and The Maine COld Cases Board Of Directors. He works closely with other survivors groups including The Straight Inc Survivors, Circle S  Ranch, White House Boys of Dover School . Mark takes a firm stance on stopping instituionalized abuse. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6508926/            

A one hour show about the history of AA and Hollywood. Marty Mann's mission to get everyone to try AA used her connections at high end Magazines where her lover worked. This connection led to the famous Jack Alexander article in The Saturday Evening Post, which gave AA its first big growth spurt. But deep inside Hollywood, inside their bubble, we have seen too many great talents die - or commit suicide. From Robbin Williams, to Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Corey Montheith and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, these actors and singers may have wanted another way to cope. Maybe some wanted to drink a drink once in a while. But AA is heavily embedded in Socal - how deep does it really go. Join us for an indepth look.  

A group of activists both current and ex AA members are trying to stop all court ordering to AA meetings. This is a known violation of our 1st Amendment rights.  Pilots, Nurses and Doctors are forced to go to AA, AA rehabs and made to believe in the AA ideology against their will. Join us for a one hour show discussing the intense cause and effect of this practice happening all across the United States.

A one hour show to explore how and why AA got SO big- so ingrained in America, Media, Medicine - or not. How Marty Mann one of the first successful AA women, single handidly moved AA into some of the Biggest Magazines of her time (1940's)  How Marty Mann, a HIgh Society Woman Helped Bill Wilson meet the biggest players in American Business. How our first Drug Czar Harry Amngslinger- Arressted over 250,000 for writing scripts for heroin which was legal at the time.Harry Jacob Anslinger (May 20, 1892 – November 14, 1975) was a United States government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He was a supporter of prohibition and the criminalization of drugs, and played a pivotal role in cannabis prohibition.     John D. Rockefeller helped Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson-by giving him $5,000 to print the First run of The Big Book. Not such a small giflt as one might think. More Facts about Rockefeller: As kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, Rockefeller's wealth soared and he became the richest person in the country, controlling 90% of all oil in the United States at his peak.[c] Oil was used throughout the country as a light source until the introduction of electricity and as a fuel after the invention of the automobile.

Join Monica Richardson for a one hour show with Podcaster, Addiction Coach, Behavioral Specialist,  Zach Rhoads from Vermont. Talking Alternatives to AA. Zach Rhoads is a human behavior specialist, addiction coach, and science writer with a focus on addiction and mental health. He is currently the host of the Young Justice Podcast-- a show about human development and addiction. His new show, The Social Exchange", will cover even more terrain, like social psychology, politics, neuroscience, and-- as always-- addiction and recovery. The Social Exchange will begin in January 2018. _________________________________________________________________  

This is a  30 minute show to discuss the problem of sexual harassment in AA, its meetings and culture . How and why it has been swept under the rug for so many decades. How we can expose this. How can we change this. Tune in for one more show with filmmaker activist for safety, Monica Richardson. Watching the film on AMAZON and VIMEO.

Join me for a short show about how all this is unraveling and how it can help this story I have been working on to expose the Sexual predators in AA since 2009. Monica Richardson. The Make AA Safer movement. The Make AA Safer Workshops I started in April 2010.  My Film The 13th Step was the beginning. It was my story and many other stories documented over 5 years. The emails never stop. The rapes. The Assualts, The 13 Stepping, which is a pure form of sexual harassment. Abuse of POWER, Abuse of preying on victims when they are at their weakest.

This is a quick short show to hopefully make you laugh!  Host Monica Richardson does a quick show with genius Voice Over Actor  Kevin Michael Richardson- you have to guess who. I have wanted to do this for a while. Enjoy! Voices of Cleveland Jr, American Dad Principal Lewis, Guest Stars on The Simpsons, Static Shock, TMNT, BLAZE, Lilo and Stitch, How I Met Your Mother- Guest star, Knight of Prosperity- regular, LIKE FAMILY - Star, many  more shows.

Join Host Monica Richardson with guests Steven Slate  and Mark Sheeren for a  "live" interview to discuss the opiate problem in the US and what we can do to improve things by helping the person and their families. Steven Slate is an expert in the field of Addiction, and has currently just finished writing a book called The FREEDOM Model. Mark Sheeren co founder of St Judes Retreats.

Join Monica Richardson for a one hour show with Mother , activst Wendy McEntyre. Very sadly December 1, 2004, at the young age of 23, Jarrod left this world. While residing at a sober living home, Called “THE SAFE HOUSE”. Roommates had brought drugs into the residence. Later on Jarrod was discovered deceased from a heroin overdose. Unfortunately, his sober living home housed him and others in an illegal shed out in the backyard…unsupervised, and much too far out to hear his last gasping breaths JarrodsLaw.org is dedicated to making sure that this type of incident never happens again in another sober living home. We can do this by making sure that sober living homes are licensed and regulated by the city in order to protect the community and their residents.  Wendy McEntyre founded Jarrods Law to expose and change the way Sober Living Homes are operating in CA.

THIS is a  show that gives a voice to ex steppers after we have left about any issue we may have.  Join Host Monica Richardson for a live CALL IN show for our group Deprogramming from AA on FACEBOOK .

Join Monica Richardson and a long time  ex stepper who left AA after 30 years. The Salad Years : Monica and Steve discuss their long-time associations with AA. Steve Clark spent nearly 30 years in AA after being "diagnosed" as a teenager by a family member. Throughout what should have been his most productive years he barely ever got above water both professionally and personally. In 2009 he came clean about being an atheist in AA, and by 2012 his relationship with the organization began to deteriorate. After leaving AA his career and personal relationships are stable and rewarding.  

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This will be a LIVE show where in ex 12 steppers can call in and speak for 3 minutes each, Each person will pretend we are at an AA, NA or OA  meeting saying what ever you would like to say . I think that in deprogramming, some move on...but some have things to say. We should be able to have 15 ex members to call in and speak their minds !

Dr. Edward Wilson, Clinical Director Edward Wilson, Non 12-Step Program Director, did his graduate and post graduate work at St. Marys University of Minnesota with an emphasis on Alternative Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Treatment. Ed is also a California Master Registered Addictions Specialist and a Nationally Certified Master Addictions Counselor. Dr Ed Wilson will join host Monica Richardson for a one hour show. Learn more about his program online or here. Discover how to apply this revolutionary approach to change your life. We’ve spent over twenty years helping individuals, couples, families, and businesses deal effectively with alcohol problems. You can take advantage of everything we’ve learned over the years to treat your problems quickly, economically, and permanently. You undoubtedly understand the value of avoiding labels, and stigma, but also in the importance of dealing with real problems, not just redirecting your focus to another form of alcohol fixation. Why settle into being a life-long victim when you can be a winner instead? The services we supply help clients reclaim their lives, and create better lives than they have ever known. Isn’t that what you want to do to? Call us today at: 888-541-6350! 4020 Palos Verdes Drive North, Suite 201, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274. www.non12step.com Dr Mary Ellen Barnes is co creator and works with Dr Ed Wilson here at this location.

Join Host Monica Richardson for a one hour show with Zarah Levin-Fragasso to discuss the Law and Drugs in New York State. Zarah is also running for Public office. We will discuss it all. Ms. Levin-Fragasso has worked in the legal profession for over a decade. Prior to pursuing her J.D., Ms. Levin-Fragasso worked as a litigation paralegal at a large commercial law firm and as a securities paralegal at an international bank. Throughout the course of her law school career, Ms. Levin-Fragasso focused her clinical training, internships, and scholarly research and writing on advocating for the rights of the vulnerable, including victims of domestic violence.

We have been doing podcasts for six years now. March 2011 was my first show. Its been a long road to finishing the film The 13th Step and getting distribution.  After years of focusing on Exposing AA, its dangers and its alternatives, it dawned on me in London this year there were filmmakers I wanted to interview, artists I have wanted to promote. So now we will expand and talk about other topics to carry through my own interests and hopefully yours. I was a singer long before I became a filmmaker , activist. I love social change. I love film, TV  and Music. I love the idea of changing the world around alcohol and drug overuse issues. I love talking to authors. Not just writers who have written about addiction and its cures. So join me as I continue with the Safe Recovery theme  ...and expand my horizons and interests.  I have grown to know and love and like so many of you. Join me for my new adventure of this after life after LEAVING AA... Next Chapter...The REAL WORLD, Thank you. Warmest, Monica Richardson

Join Host Monica Richardson for a 30 minsute show about How  12 step rehab has created many deaths. Parents all across the country are trying to figure out how this happened. From Florida, to the Chris Bathum Case seen on 20/20 ABC, the FBI is cracking down on these fraudulent places. Goverend only by The Department of Health in California. It seems things need to become more "real" then just AA members working in a "rehab " which was created in 1935. Some places there is little or so therapy. AA meetings are treated as "treatment" and you might be driven to a Sober Living near by where a violent offedner is waiting to hook up with your daughter. See 48 Hours The Sober Truth episode about Karla Brada. If there corruption? Why is Athem Bllue Cross paying 9 times for a place that provides NO medical treatment. Why is a pee test that cost $5 being charding to Medicade $1,000.

The Clean Slate Addiction Site is the website of addiction writer Steven Slate - dedicated to understanding the true nature of substance use problems. A one hour show with host Monica Richardson, Filmmaker , activist,  podcast, radio show host and blogger interviews Steven Slate from New York City. Biography    Steven Slate is the Author of The Clean Slate Addiction Site. He is co-author of the Saint Jude Program 13th Edition taught at Saint Jude Retreats. He's authored articles on addiction for textbooks. He continues to work in research and development at Baldwin Research Institute to create the best solution for problematic substance use. Products Steven Slate offers help for people with substance use problems at the Saint Jude Retreats NYC office. For more info, go to: http://sjprogramnyc.com

Join host Monica Richardson for a 1 hour show . Melanie's Bio After battling a twelve-year addiction, and being trapped in the "recovery merry-go-round" nightmare, I have finally woken up after almost dying several times. My second edition of "AA-Not the Only Way" which is also at www.aanottheonlyway.com has just become available, where you will learn about my life, as it has taken both its ups and downs, and how I have come out on the other side ok. There is also a multitude of alternative self-help groups to find out about, and other ways to assist you in either stopping your drinking or using, or moderating it to a harmless level. In this new edition, I have also added alternatives such as hypnosis, acupuncture and Chinese herbs. Add to that a directory of licensed professionals and treatment facilities, if that is determined to be what you need, both within the U.S. and abroad, including all of their contact information...https://www.amazon.com/Melanie-Solomon/e/B002VZ5HAK So she became the consummate researcher, finding new purpose in compiling information on evidence-based alternative recovery options that might better suit the complex and individualized needs of people suffering with substance abuse problems.  In the process, she discovered that she was far from being alone in her AA "failure."   Indeed, it was instead a customized path that would help her create enduring sobriety.  The result was her book, "AA Not the Only Way- Your One Stop Resource Guide to 12-Step Alternatives," an Amazon.com bestseller in its 2nd Edition.