Harm Reduction Radio - Hams

Our guest this evening is Shari Allwood, executive director of SMART Recovery.

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.