Harm Reduction Radio - Hams

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.