Harm Reduction Radio - Hams

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.