Harm Reduction Radio - Hams

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.