Dec 27, 2018
Lauryn Wicks is a mother whose youngest child has been struggling with substance use. In helping her son, Lauryn has become a recovery advocate and works to help get municipalities and the State of Pennsylvania to broaden their support for substance abuse and to expand the use of evidence based treatments. Lauryn has...
Dec 20, 2018
Dr. Joel Solomon is an addiction psychiatrist and an expert in the field of medical marijuana. In this episode, we discuss everything from how you can get prescribed medical marijuana, to what it helps, what evidence there is for it, and what to expect down the road.
Dec 13, 2018
Dr. David Yusko is a nationally recognized expert in prolonged exposure (PE) therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of a handful of experts on the concurrent treatment of PTSD and substance use disorders. Dr. Yusko talks about how you should work with someone who is struggling with both PTSD and...
Dec 6, 2018
Dr. Robert Meyers, the lead developer of the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) approach for helping to engage resistant substance users into treatment, and to help the family system in the process, will discuss the creation of CRAFT, why it is so effective at helping families and how it helps...
Nov 29, 2018
Dr. Jonathan Fader is the team psychologist for the New York Mets and the New York Giants. He is also a certified Motivational Interviewing (MI) trainer, the most effective treatment for helping someone enter into and engage in treatment for substance use. Dr. Fader will join me and discuss how he uses MI to help people...