Harm Reduction Radio - HAMS: Recent Episodes
Kenneth Anderson
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 Harm Reduction Network and the author of "How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol."
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 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 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.
Our guest this evening is Michael J. Kuhar, PhD, Candler Professor of Neuropharmacology at Emory University School of Medicine and author of The Addicted Brain: Why We Abuse Drugs, Alcohol, and Nicotine. We will be discussing the neuroscience of tolerance, withdrawal, and other aspects of addiction.
Our guest this evening is Aleta Edwards, Psy. D. who is the author of Fear of the Abyss: Healing the Wounds of Shame & Perfectionism.
Our guest this evening is Ogi Ogas, author of A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships. We will be discussing internet ography, romance novels, gays and straights, transsexuals, what turns on men, what turns on women, and the existence of internet and ography addictions.
Our guest this evening is Stanford University Alcohol Medical Scholar Anna Lembke MD. We discuss drug use and abuse and the DSM classifications, treatment, incarceration, legalization decriminalization, spontaneous remission, and much more.
Our guest this evening is Rolf Ankermann and we will be discussing his book The Freedom to Recover.
Our guests this evening are Gerald and Lydia Scott who operate the Asheville Recovery Group, a group of Harm Reduction Recovery Residences in Asheville North Carolina.
Our guest is Helen Redmond, LCSW, NYU adjunct faculty, journalist, therapist and drug and alcohol counselor. We talk about myths about drugs and the drug war in the media, alcohol, tobacco, Afghanistan, race, class and much much more.
Our guest this evening is Valery Shuman, Associate Director at Heartland Health Outreach - Midwest Harm Reduction Institute. We discuss harm reduction housing, The housing first model (HFM) fidelity index, overdose prevention, and much, much more.
Our guest this evening is Jacob Sullum, senior editor at Reason magazine and author of Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use.
Our guest is Peter Ferentzy Ph. D. who will be talking about his book Dealing With Addiction: Why The 20th Century Was Wrong who will be discussing the many myths of addiction treatment which make drug users worse instead of helping them to get better.
MM founder Audrey Kishline, who is now using her maiden name of Audrey Conn, talks about her time in Moderation Management, why she resigned, the fatal automobile crash, Alcoholics Anonymous, and more.
Our guest this evening is Lore Baker, Executive Director of the Illinois Supportive Housing Providers Association who will be talking about supportive housing and the Housing First model.
Our guest this evening is Gretchen Burns Bergman, Executive Director and Co-Founder of A New PATH and member of Moms United to End the War on Drugs.
Our guest this evening is Sabrina Fendrick, director of NORML Women's Alliance. NORML is the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Our guest this evening is Gabrielle Glaser, author of Her Best-Kept Secret: Why Women Drink-And How They Can Regain Control.
Our guest this evening is Ashley E. Phillips, president of Recovery Coaches International and statewide Coordinator for SMART Recovery in California.
Our guest this evening is Laura Makey who is a certified Moderator and Chat Leader, as well as Treasurer of the
Board of Directors of Women For Sobriety, Inc.
Our guest this evening is Arnold M. Washton, Ph. D. Founder and Executive Director of Recovery Options, a private group practice specializing in the treatment of substance use disorders in executives and professionals. Dr. Washton is also the author of Willpower’s Not Enough: Understanding and Recovering From Addictions of Every Kind.
Our guest this evening is Beverly Buncher, creator of the program Be a Loving Mirror. This is a program which helps the friends and family of people with substance use problems cope with these problems and offers strategies to help facilitate positive changes.
Our guest this evening is Michele Rosenthal, author of Before the World Intruded and host of the podcast Your Life After Trauma.
Our guest this evening is Jeffrey Foote, Ph.D., Co-founder and Clinical Director of The Center for Motivation and Change, a non 12 step outpatient treatment program which uses Evidence Based Treatments such as Motivational Interviewing (MI), Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA), Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
Our guest this evening is Anne Fletcher, author of Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment-and How to Get Help That Works, an exposé of the huge number of problems found in typical addiction treatment programs, as well as a discussion of the few programs out there which are genuinely effective.
Our guest this evening is Gayle Dakof, Ph.D. of the University of Miami who is one of the developers of Multidimensional Family Therapy, an evidence-based intervention for adolescent drug users and their families.
Our guest this evening is Susan Godley Rh. D. (Doctor of Rehabilitation) of Chestnut Health Systems who will be discussing the Cannabis Youth Treatment study and the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach to addiction treatment.
Our guest this evening is Pat Taylor, Executive Director of Faces and Voices of Recovery. We will be discussing the place of harm reduction in the recovery movement.
Our guest this evening is Gene Heyman Ph. D., author of Addiction: a Disorder of Choice and lecturer at Boston College. Dr. Heyman's research focuses on in the determinants of drug use; he will be discussing the roles of the global reward maximizing process and the simpler, myopic local reward maximizing principle in determining whether people continue to use drugs or choose to abstain.
Our guest this evening is Robert Schwebel, Ph. D., creator of The Seven Challenges program. The Seven Challenges is an evidence based drug and alcohol treatment program for teenagers which is rooted in the principles of harm reduction. It is listed by SAMHSA as an evidence based intervention.
Over the past 15 years, harm reduction psychotherapist Joseph Cohen Ph. D. has worked with children and adults with HIV/AIDS in Brooklyn and the Bronx, developed the mental health program for a syringe exchange in Manhattan, taught and supervised graduate students, and worked extensively with individuals and couples in the LGBT community. In addressing problems with alcohol and drug use, he utilizes a harm reduction approach to help the individual to comprehend the unique meanings and purposes of drinking or using drugs, as well as its costs and benefits, so that patterns of use can be explored and changed.
Ellen Tuchman Ph D of NYU's Silver School of Social Work discusses her research with female injection drug users. She discusses the issue of self vs. partner injection and many other issues faced by women who inject drugs and talks about how it is different to be a woman drug injector than a male.
Guest Laura Tompkins explains how attending twelve step programs such as AA or NA can be hazardous to your mental health. Ms Tompkins holds a Master of Arts in Addiction Studies from the Hazelden Graduate School for Addiction Studies.
Our guest Steven Slate talks about St. Jude's New York City non 12 step day class program, Cognitive Behavioral Education, and his web site The Clean Slate.
Our guest this evening is Mara B Collins who will be discussing her work using harm reduction and existential therapy.
Our guest this evening is Claudia Christian who starred as Commander Susan Ivanova in the TV series Babylon 5. She is also the author of Babylon Confidential which tells the story of how she overcame her alcohol problem by using naltrexone and The Sinclair Method.
Our guest is Johnny Lorenz who facilitates the San Francisco Drug Users Union Meetup, where current and former drug users share their successes and failures, and discuss harm reduction strategies they find helpful in moderating their use.
Our guest Donald Grove will talk about ACT UP and the history of the AIDS crisis, gay activism, harm reduction, and needle exchange in New York City.
UCLA addiction researcher Adi Jaffe Ph. D. talks about 5 damaging myths about addiction.
Our guest this evening is Sandra L. Brown, M.A., CEO of The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Pathology Education and author of Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of inevitable Harm With Psychopaths, Sociopaths & Narcissists.
Our guest this evening is Martin Schechter MD, co-investigator of Vancouver, British Columbia's Project NAOMI, North America's first heroin-assisted treatment trial. The acronym NAOMI stands for the North American Opiate Medication Initiative.
Our guest this evening is psychologist Bruce Levine Ph. D., author of Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy. We will be discussing the DSM, addiction, psych meds, over-prescription and much more.
Our guest this evening is Mennonite Minister Lia Scholl, author of I Heart Sex Workers.
Today's show is about the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center in New York City. Our guests are Executive Director Alexandra Dyer, Harm Reduction Specialist Reilly Glasgow, Health Services Coordinator Ajani Benjamin, and Substance Use Counselor Jose Sanchez.
Our guest this evening is Anna Baranowsky Ph. D. who is an expert on the topics of Compassion Fatigue and PTSD. Dr. Baranowsky is the Executive Director of the Traumatology Institute and the author of Trauma Practice, Tools for Stabilization and Recovery and What Is PTSD?: 3 Steps To Healing Trauma. Her websites are www.ticlearn.com and www.whatisptsd.com.
Our guest this evening is Cyndy Etler, author of Straightling, a memoir of the torture and brainwashing she experienced at the teenage drug rehab program called Straight Inc. Straight Inc was an offshoot of Synanon. Offshoots of Straight Inc are still in operation today and these are not safe places for anyone's children.
Our guests this evening are Caren Osten Gerszberg and Leah Odze Epstein who are the editors of the book Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up which explores the relationship of women to alcohol. This book is a development of the Drinking Diaries blog.
Our guest this evening is Jennifer Kirschner who will be talking about the Baltimore Student Harm Reduction Coalition.
Our guest today is Jeremy Frank PhD CAC, harm reduction therapist in Philadelphia. Dr. Frank is also past Coordinator of Campus Alcohol and Substance Awareness at Temple University and past Assistant Director of Student Health and Counseling at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
Our guest this evening is Dr. Lala Straussner, director of the NYU Silver School of Social Work post-master certificate program in the Clinical Approaches to Addictions. Dr. Straussner is editor or author of numerous books, including Children of Substance-Abusing Parents: Dynamics and Treatment, The Handbook of Addiction Treatment For Women: Theory and Practice, Ethnocultural Factors in the Treatment of Addictions, and Gender and addictions: Men and women in treatment.
Our guest this evening is Lee Ann Kaskutas DrPH who is currently conducting the online survey study What Is Recovery. We invite all our listeners to take the survey after the show here http://www.whatisrecovery.org. Dr. Kaskutas is also the author of the research article Alcoholics Anonymous Effectiveness: Faith Meets Science and editor of the book Research on Alcoholics Anonymous and Spirituality in Addiction Recovery. We will be discussing whether abstinence or spirituality are neccessary for recovery.
Our guest this evening is Neill Neill Ph. D., author of Living with a Functioning Alcoholic: A Woman’s Survival Guide. Dr. Neill will be dispelling many myths about alcohol and alcoholism as well as offering practical tips for what to do with a spouse whose drinking is a problem.
Our guest today is Alexandra Stein, author of the book Inside Out: A Memoir of Entering and Breaking Out of A Minneapolis Political Cult and the doctoral dissertation Attachment, Networks and Discourse in Extremist Political Organizations: A Comparative Case Study. We will be discussing disorganized attachment and trauma bonding in cults and how this differs from healthy bonding in non-cults.
Our guest is Libertarian Vice Presidential Candidate Judge Jim Gray who will be discussing the federal raids on California Medical Marijuana dispensaries and the failed war on drugs. Judge Gray is the author of the book Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed: A Judicial Indictment Of War On Drugs.
Our guest tonight is Karen B. Walant, Ph. D., author of Creating the Capacity for Attachment: Treating Addictions and the Alienated Self.
Our guest is cult expert Janja Lalich PhD, Professor of Sociology at CSU Chico and author of Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships.
Our guest tonight is Ryan Paul Carruthers, executive director of Abintra Counseling, a Nebraska-based addiction treatment program which incorporates Motivational Interviewing, Harm Reduction, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Abintra is a Latin word meaning "from within."
Our guest tonight is Marlene Winell Ph. D., author of Leaving the Fold - A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving their Religion. For more information about recovery from harmful religion and religious trauma syndrome please visit Dr. Winell's web site http://journeyfree.org.
Our guest is Jay Levy, author of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing and Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned. Jay has been working in homeless outreach and Housing First for over 20 years.
Our guest this afternoon is Marc D Lewis Ph D, author of Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs.
Our guest is Philip J. Flores Ph. D., author of Addiction as an Attachment Disorder. We will be discussing addiction and attachment theory.
Our guest this evening is Gilbert Ross MD, Executive Director of the American Council on Science and Health. Dr. Ross is the author of the Forbes article How Health Regulators Are Killing American Smokers. We will be discussing various tobacco harm reduction strategies including Swedish snus, electronic cigarettes, and smoking reduction.
Our guest this evening is Darrel Ray Ed. D. who is the author of The God Virus and Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality. He also operates the web site Recovering from Religion.
Our guest this evening is Jenny Barber who will tell us about her experience working in Eva's Satellite, a harm reduction youth shelter for 16 to 24 year olds in Toronto Canada.
Our guest is harm reduction therapist Pamela Smithbell who is the author of the paper From New Age to Neuroscience; Creating New Narratives with Meditation Programs and Guided Imagery in Addiction Treatment.
Our guest this evening is Robert Doyle, MD, DDS of Harvard Health Services. Dr. Doyle is co-author of the book Almost Alcoholic.
Our guest is Joseph Nowinski PhD, co-author of the book Almost Alcoholic and primary author of the Project MATCH 12 Step Facilitation Therapy Manual.
Our guest is Mason Tvert, co-author of Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? and executive director of saferchoice.org.
Our guest is Barry Lessin, M.Ed., CAADC who will be discussing his journey from being a traditional 12 step addictions counselor to becoming a harm reduction therapist.
Our guest this evening is Andrew Bairnsfather, founder of Christians Against Prohibition, and we will be discussing how the drug war is in violation of the basic ethical principles which inform the world's religions.
Our guest this evening is Cynthia Hoffman, MFT who does couples counseling and harm reduction therapy groups in San Francisco.
Our guest this evening is Marlene Reil, PhD, CASAC who will be discussing co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Dr. Reil also specializes in mindfulness and smoking cessation.
John P Pasagiannis, PhD joins us this evening to talk about substance use and harm reduction among artists and young adults.
Andrew Tatarsky joins us this evening to talk about The Center for Optimal Living, Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and his book Harm Reduction Psychotherapy.
Our guest tonight is Denise Cullen, Executive Director of GRASP. GRASP stands for Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing. GRASP is a support group for people who have lost a loved one as a result of drug use. The GRASP book is called When a Child Dies From Drugs.
Our guest tonight is Michael Benibgui PhD who is currently a psychologist at the Center for Optimal Living and Project Director at Services for the Under Served and who in the past has been Clinical Director at GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis). We will be discussing his research and work with substance use and harm reduction in the LGBT community and his research on the Physiological Impacts Of Homophobia.
Renowned addictions expert Stanton Peele joins us for a year in review episode. We have covered a huge amount of ground with many brilliant people and we want to thank them all. Starting next week we will move to a less intense format of one half hour show per week, thus freeing up a lot of time to move on to new adventures.
Our guest tonight is Susan Collins Ph.D. of the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences who will be talking to us about her research on wet housing. Her studies show that homeless alcoholics who are allowed to drink in wet housing significantly reduce their alcohol consumption when compared to homeless alcoholics living on the streets. Moreover wet housing costs the city only a fraction of what it costs for alcoholics to live on the streets.
Our first guest is Anne Fletcher, author of Sober for Good and many other books. Our second guest is Scott Elting from Draeger Diagnostics to talk about the Breathalyzer Ignition Interlock Device, BRAIID.
Our first guest is Bart Majoor, Clinical Director at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction, a syringe exchange and harm reduction program in the Bronx New York. Our second guest is MADD founder Candace Lightner who will be talking to us about the Breathalyzer Ignition Interlock Device.
Our guest tonight is David Rudy Ph D, author of the book Becoming Alcoholic: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Reality of Alcoholism which discusses the conversion process of affiliation with AA from a sociologist's perspective.
Our first guest is Jenifer Talley PhD who teaches courses in substance abuse treatment with a focus on harm reduction at The New School University. Our second guest, who wishes to remain anonymous, will discuss underground needle exchange programs in Texas where possession of a syringe is a crime.
Our guests tonight are Estate "Tato" Sokhadze PhD and Christopher Stewart MD, both of the University of Louisville, who will be discussing their research in using biofeedback in addictions treatment. For more information or to find a provider please visit http://www.isnr.org or http://www.aapb.org.
Our guest is Moe Sattar, founder of the Safe Rides Unlimited drunk driving prevention program. Don't want a DUI? Safe ride programs are one of the best DUI prevention strategies out there!
Our guest tonight is Donna J. Cornett, founder of the Drink Link moderate drinking program and author of 7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking: How to Effectively Moderate Your Alcohol Intake and other books.
Join us as Sarz Maxwell MD of the Chicago Recovery Alliance talks about methadone, buprenorphine, and discrimination against maintenance patients which occurs in communities and even in methadone clinics themselves.
Our first guest is Dr. David J. Hanson who operates the web site Alcohol Problems & Solutions. Dr. Hanson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at SUNY Potsdam. Our second guest is Dr Sarah Bowen of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington. Dr. Bowen, together with Dr. Neha Chawla, is the author of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors A Clinician's Guide.
Our first guest is Patt Denning Ph D who will be talking about her new book Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy 2nd Edition, which is a must read for all mental health and substance abuse treatment professionals. This second edition is not merely an update of the first--it is a whole new book. Our second guest is Gabrielle Glaser who will be talking about her forthcoming book Uncorked which explores the history of women and alcohol in America and discusses why AA can be such a bad fit for women drinkers.
Our guest is Jeffrey Dhywood, author of World War D. The Case against prohibitionism, roadmap to controlled re-legalization.
The number of drug overdose deaths has more than tripled in the US since 1990. More than 100 people die of a drug overdose in the US every day. This increase was not caused by illegal street drugs--the number of deaths from heroin overdose remains relatively constant. The majority of drug overdose deaths in America today are cause by prescription painkillers. Sales of prescription painkillers in the US have tripled since 1999--paralleling the tripling of drug overdose deaths. Project Lazarus in North Carolina is fighting these drug overdose deaths with overdose prevention kits and naloxone, and they are succeeding in turning the tide. Our guests tonight are Project Lazarus workers Fred Wells Brason II and Nabarun Dasgupta who will fill us in on what is happening.
Our first guest is Howard Josepher, creator of the Exponents Arrive program, one of the first harm reduction programs in New York City. Our second guest is Rae Eden Frank, former executive director and my former supervisor at Access Works needle exchange in Minneapolis.
Our first guest is Shilo Murphy, executive director of the Peoples Harm Reduction Alliance to talk about drug user stigma. Our second guest is Michelle Dunbar, executive director of St Jude Retreat House. St Jude's has the highest independently verified success rate of any addiction treatment center--no 12 steps, no disease model, and no Bllsht.
Our first guest is Mona Bennett, Programs Coordinator for the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition. Our second geust is Richard Wilmot PhD, author of American Euphoria: Saying 'Know' to Drugs.
Our guest is Robert Childs, executive director of the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition who will discuss syringe decriminalization, overdose prevention, and the southern sex work harm reduction summit.
Our first guests will be representatives of VOCAL, a Brooklyn based harm reduction and social justice organization working to effect positive social change. Our second guest is Dr. Edward Khantzian of Harvard University who is the originator of the self-medication hypothesis of addiction.
Scott Kellogg PhD of NYU will be discussing Transformational Chairwork (a technique derived from Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls' psychodrama) and its use in addictions treatment. We will also discuss Gradualism.
Your host Kenneth Anderson is joined by Allan Clear of the Harm Reduction Coalition for a discussion of the stigmatization of drug users and people who drink alcohol.
Our first guest is Sharon Stancliff MD of the Harm Reduction Coalition who will be discussing overdose prevention, naloxone (aka narcan), and Good Samaritan laws. Our second guest is Lisa Dietz who operates the DBT Self Help website who will be discussing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
Our first guest will be Bill White, author of Slaying the Dragon, who will be talking about the rapid growth of the treatment industry in the US in the latter half of the 20th century as well as discussing some of the abuses which arose as a result of this rapid growth and attempts to address these abuses via codes of ethics, etc. Our second guest is Dr. Steven Hayes, developer of ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Our first guest is Lance Dodes, MD, author of The Heart of Addiction and Breaking Addiction, who will discuss the psychology of addiction. Our second guest is Paula DeSanto, founder and CEO of MN Alternatives, a non-12-step treatment program which incorporates harm reduction.
Our guest tonight is Carissa Cornwell, national outreach director for Dance Safe, a pill testing organization for safe raves and safe ecstasy use.
Our first guest is Dr. Sam Tsemberis, CEO of Pathways to Housing, a "wet" housing program which does not require clients to be abstinent before they are housed. Our second guest is Dr. Helga Matzko, founder of the Gestalt Institute of Rhode Island. Helga uses Gestalt Psychology and Seligman's Positive Psychology to treat addictions and she will be telling us about the Beyond Recovery program.
Our first guest is Jim Mergens, executive director of Moderation Management. MM is a program for early stage problem drinkers who wish to moderate their drinking. Our second guest is Walter Cavalieri, executive director of the Canadian Harm Reduction Network, a virtual meeting place for individuals and organizations dedicated to reducing the social, health and economic harms associated with drugs and drug policies.
Our first guest is Bill White, author of Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America. Our second guest is Ronald Siegel, author of The Mindfulness Solution.
Our guest is Tom Horvath, president of SMART Recovery, president of Practical Recovery and author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions.
Our first guest is Susanne Bargmann, co-founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence, who will be talking to us about Client Directed Outcome Informed therapy (CDOI). CDOI develops clients' strengths rather than telling them that they are powerless. Our second guest is Kristin Neff who will be discussing her book Self Compassion. Standard substance abuse treatment programs tell people to beat themselves up and call themselves powerless and losers and the result is relapse, depression, and sometimes even suicide. All too often people abuse substances because they are too hard on themselves and can use a great dose of self compassion to help them to make changes for the better.
Our first guest is Meghan Ralston of The Drug Policy Alliance who will be sharing her expertise in harm reduction and drug policy reform and why we need to end the war on drugs. Our second guest is Dr. David Burns, author of Feeling Good which is probably the best selling self help book on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ever written.
Our first guest is Kathleen Sciacca. Kathleen is a member of MINT (the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers) and has created dual diagnosis treatment programs which have been used as models throughout the country. For more information about Kathleen's current activities please visit her Motivational Interviewing web site and her Dual Diagnosis web site. Our second guest is Jerry Dorsman, author of How to Quit Drinking Without AA. Jerry currently works as an addictions counselor and freelance writer.
Our first guest is Robert Whitaker, author of "Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America." We will be discussing the epidemic increase in mental illness which has accompanied the boom in prescribing psychiatric medications and the possible dangers of the over prescription of psychiatric drugs at the behest of Big Pharma. Our second guest is Dr. Daliah Heller who has served as the executive director of Citiwide Harm Reduction and who is currently assistant commissioner of drugs and alcohol for the New York City government. Dr. Heller will tell us about her history as a harm reductionist and the state of harm reduction and drug treatment in New York City, including how harm reduction programs have been integrated into the mainstream in the city.
Our first guest is Sue Purchase who will tell us about the history of needle exchange in Minneapolis from Women With A Point to Access Works to the present. A subject close to my heart since I learned harm reduction by volunteering at Access works. Our second guest is Carlo DiClemente, co-author of "Changing for Good" who will tell us about the Stages of Change model.
Our first guest is hypnotherapist Wendi Friesen who will discuss the use of hypnosis for smoking cessation, alcohol dependence and addiction. We will be discussing the research literature as well as Wendi's own practice. Our second guest is Dr. Bruce Alexander, professor emeritus of psychology at Simon Frasier University and recipient of the Sterling Prize. Dr. Alexander will be talking about his Rat Park studies which demonstrate the effect of environment on addiction.
Our first guest is Dr. Andrew Newberg, author of How God Changes Your Brain and other books. Dr. Newberg studies the effects of religious experiences such as glossolalia (speaking in tongues) and meditation on brain activity. Drugs and alcohol are not the only things that can alter your consciousness and make your brain light up in different ways. Our second guest is Adam Zimbardo, a marriage and family counselor located in California who works with addiction issues as well as alternative sexualities including gay, transgender, and BDSM.
Our first guest is Dr. Robert Minor the author of When Religion Is an Addiction. Dr. Minor is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at The University of Kansas and the founder of The Fairness Project which promotes fair and positive understanding of all human beings. Our second guest is Mark Tuschel the author of Living Sober Sucks! (but living drunk sucks more). The NIAAA tells us that most people get over an alcohol addiction on their own without AA or rehab and Mark Tuschel is an example of this self-recovery.
Our first guest is Dr. Gabor Mate, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. Dr. Mate works with Insite, Vancouver's safe injection facility and with the Portland Hotel Society which houses otherwise homeless drug users. Our second guest is Dr. Erika Dyck, author of Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus. Dr. Dyck is an expert on the history of LSD therapy for alcoholism.
Our first guests will be Ilse and Mark of stinkin'-thinkin'--an AA deprogramming blog. Our second guest is Liz Michael of Moder8, a program for people who wish to moderate their drinking.
Our first guest is Jim Christopher, founder of SOS (Secular Organizations For Sobriety, also known as Save Our Selves), a non religious abstinence based alternative to AA. He is also the author of How to Stay Sober: Recovery Without Religion and other books. Our second guest is Andrew Tatarsky, author of Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems.
Our first guest is Dr. Robert Meyers who is a co-author of Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening and one of the developers of CRAFT: Community Reinforcement and Family Training, an evidence based approach to dealing with a loved one's drug or alcohol problems. Our second guest is Craig Whalley, the executive director of LifeRing--a purely secular sobriety support group for people who wish to abstain from drugs or alcohol. As always Stanton Peele joins us to close the show.
Our first guest is Amy Lee Coy, author of "From Death Do I Part: How I Freed Myself From Addiction," who will tell us of her journey to self-recovery from addiction. Data from the NIAAA suggests that self-recovery, rather than formal treatment or AA, is the most common way for people to overcome addictions. Our second guest is New York City addictions therapist Brian Murphy LCSW M Ed. Brian is CEO of Self-Led Solutions, a harm reduction based practice which helps people to make changes in ways which they choose for themselves. Stanton Peele joins us to close the show for the week.
Our guest is Cyndee Clay of HIPS--Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive--a harm reduction agency focusing on sex workers headquartered in Washington DC. Stanton Peele joins us to close the show for the week.
Our first segment will be about InSite, North America's only safe injection facility. InSite is located in Vancouver, BC Canada. Research shows that not only does InSite prevent overdose fatalities, but also that clients who engage with InSite are far more likely to make use of detox and treatment facilities than those who do not. Our second guest is Patt Denning PhD, who is the author of "Over the Influence" and "Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy" as well as a director at the Harm Reduction Therapy Center in San Francisco and Oakland. Dr. Denning's work has revolutionized the way we approach drug and alcohol problems. Stanton Peele joins us to close the show for the week.
Our first guest is Marc Kern PhD who has been providing non 12 step addiction treatment alternatives in Los Angeles California since 1983. Dr. Kern is a co-author of the book "Responsible Drinking" and helps clients to achieve goals of abstinence, moderation, or harm reduction. Our second guest is Renee Franklin, Certified Moderator and Board Treasurer for Women For Sobriety (WFS). WFS was founded by Jean Kirkpatrick PhD in 1975 to help women alcoholics abstain from alcohol. The WFS program is highly positive and features 13 affirmations. Stanton Peele joins us to close the show for the evening.
Our first guest is Sharon Stancliff MD, medical director for the harm reduction coalition, who will discuss opiate replacement therapy using methadone or buprenorphine and overdose prevention using naloxone (narcan). Our second guest is Katie Witkiewitz PhD who will discuss her work with relapse prevention. Stanton Peele will join us to help close the show.
Our first guest is Allan Clear, executive director of the Harm Reduction Coalition, who will tell us about HRC's functions as a harm reduction trainer and coordinator as well as some of the history of needle exchange and harm reduction in the US. Our first guest is Stacia Cosner from Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP http://ssdp.org) who will tell us why and how students oppose the war on drugs.Stanton Peele closes with his thoughts for the week.
Due to a communications error our first guest missed the show and I did a monologue abut HAMS--he is interviewed at a later date. Our second guest is Dee-Dee Stout, the author of "Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking & Screaming: Looking for Harm Reduction in a 12-Step World." Ms. Stout is a bridge-builder between the traditional treatment paradigm and the harm reduction approach. Stanton Peele joins us to close the show.
Our guest is harm reduction pioneer Dan Bigg from the Chicago Recovery Alliance who will share his experiences in harm reduction with us. Stanton Peele closes the show with his thoughts for the week.
The media and movies like "New Jack City" paint a picture of crack cocaine as a black ghetto drug which is immediately addictive, totally uncontrollable, and leads to an epidemic of crack babies. But is there really any truth to this media hype? Experts Mark Kinzly and Kevin Irwin join us to dispel the myths about crack and give us the real facts without the hype.
Our first guest is Melanie Solomon, author of "AA Not the Only Way." Melanie is one of many people who did not find the 12 steps helpful in dealing with her addictions and as a result has devoted herself to making a compendium of alternatives for all who can benefit from a different approach.
Our second guest is Terry Morris who works at The Speed Project in San Francisco. The Speed Project is a harm reduction project for gay men who use methamphetamine. Terry will be sharing with us her experiences with harm reduction support groups and harm reduction techniques for meth users.
As always Dr. Stanton Peele will close the show with his thoughts for the week.
SPECIAL: Dr. David Sinclair will be visiting us from Finland to tell us about The Sinclair Method of pharmacological extinction of alcoholism using naltrexone. The Sinclair Method has been adopted as a standard treatment protocol in Finland and boasts up to an 80 or 90% success rate.
Our first guest is Dr. Henry Steinberger who will tell us about SMART Recovery and Cognitive Behavioral approaches to substance abuse problems. Dr. Steinberger is a past member of the SMART Recovery board and currently practices psychotherapy in Madison Wisconsin.
Our second guest is Reverend Raquel Algarin who is the executive director of the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center in Manhattan. Rev. Algarin will tell us about the wide variety of harm reduction services offered at her facility--it is a lot more than just needle exchange.
As always we reserve the final 10 minutes of the show for Stanton's Corner, where Dr. Stanton Peele will comment on addiction issues of the day.
Our first guest is Dr. Amanda Reiman of UC Berkeley. Dr. Reiman has made an in depth study of medical marijuana dispensaries and the use of cannabis to treat addiction. Her publications include "Cannabis as a substitute for alcohol and other drugs" (PMID 19958538). We will be discussing the success rates of marijuana maintenance programs.
Our second guest is Dr. Ed Wilson from Non 12 Step Alcoholism Treatment http://www.non12step.com . Dr. Wilson will be discussing with us the fact that it is possible to recover from alcoholism without spirituality or a higher power, and that secular programs which rely on science have far higher success rates than do 12 step programs which require a spiritual solution.
We will close with our regular weekly feature--Stanton Peele's thoughts of the week.
Dr. Mary Ellen Barnes, president of Non 12 Step Treatment, will be our first guest of the evening and she will discuss the evidence-based treatment protocols which she uses at her alcoholism treatment facility in California. Her web site is http://www.non12step.com
Our second guest is James Gierach from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP www.leap.cc). Mr. Gierach is a Former Cook County, Illinois State Prosecutor who will be speaking out against the war on drugs.
As always we reserve the final 10 minutes of the show for Stanton's Corner, where Dr. Stanton Peele will comment on addiction issues of the day.
Dr. Stanton Peele has revolutionized the way we view addiction with the publication of such books as "Love and Addiction," "The Diseasing of America," "7 Tools to Beat Addiction" and "Addiction-Proof Your Child." Dr. Peele has been an outspoken critic of addiction treatment programs such as AA and 12 step programs which are based on divine revelation rather than clinical research. Dr. Peele has also long been an advocate of evidence based approaches to addiction treatment such as Harm Reduction, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Community Reinforcement Approach. We are most pleased and proud to bring you an interview with Dr. Peele on this our first show.