Latest Benzodiazepines Podcast Episodes
Sticking Together Means We Grow
SMART Recovery® Podcast - February 23, 2023 17:10 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsNewly minted SMART Recovery facilitator Tracy Gryp and her mentor Rick Kuplinski share their personal SMART journey and how they created better lives for themselves through the program. In the spirit of paying it forward, they now work together to bring the best support group meetings possible t...
Making My Story Useful
SMART Recovery® Podcast - February 15, 2023 16:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsMary Beth O'Connor went from running from the law as a methamphetamine abuser to handing down the law as a judge. Now twenty nine years in recovery, Mary Beth chronicles her incredible story in her new memoir, From Junkie to Judge: One Woman's Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction. In this epi...
It's All About Comfort and Confidence
SMART Recovery® Podcast - January 27, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsAs SMART's Director of Meetings and Volunteers, Melina Gilbert often gets to experience a volunteer meeting facilitator's passion for what they do, and that makes her feel very fortunate. To keep that energy moving, Melina and her team are currently working hard on helping facilitators grow thei...
Is Addiction a Choice?
SMART Recovery® Podcast - January 23, 2023 13:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThe question of an individual's ability to control a substance or behavioral addiction has been long-debated. More than 20 years ago Dr. Jeffrey Schaler made his stance clear in his book Addiction is a Choice. Dr. Schaler remains steadfast in his conclusion that addiction is a behavior and beh...
What Was Once Hidden is Now Exposed
SMART Recovery® Podcast - January 06, 2023 15:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsGee Matamoros' journey to recovery included some very dark passages. Now he travels a brighter road, and insists on enjoying life as much as possible. Fortunately for us, one of the things he enjoys most is spreading the word about SMART. In this podcast, Gee talks about: How his substa...
I’m Not the Go Along Guy; I’m the Self-Efficacy Guy
SMART Recovery® Podcast - November 21, 2022 15:47 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsDr. Stanton Peele is a lawyer, professor, psychologist, psychotherapist, and author. Of all of these titles, he’s probably best known as an advocate and pioneer in the addiction and treatment world. His new memoir, A Scientific Life on the Edge: My Lonely Quest to Change How We See Addiction, is...
Becoming a Shadow of Myself
SMART Recovery® Podcast - October 31, 2022 16:53 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsJohnny Allison’s substance use started as a way to cope with the trauma of war and chaos of military life. His recovery started as a way to become the soldier and person he knew he was and could be. Today, he is a Veteran, SMART Facilitator, and the Lead of the SMART UK Veterans Program. In th...
Coming to Your Own Conclusions About Alcohol
SMART Recovery® Podcast - October 17, 2022 17:49 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsYears ago, Brett Macdonald and his friends had the time of their lives backpacking across Australia. After many conversations, they realized that heavy alcohol use had become a staple in their lives. This led them to creating a “sober competition” to see who could abstain from drinking the longe...
Is There a Magic Pill for Alcohol Addiction?
SMART Recovery® Podcast - October 03, 2022 16:44 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsKatie Lain is the co-founder of Thrive Alcohol Recovery, an organization that uses the Sinclair Method to help treat alcohol use disorder (AUD). Katie struggled a decade trying to get her drinking under control, but no programs or treatments worked. In searching the internet for answers, she f...
Providing Insights Others Couldn't See
SMART Recovery® Podcast - September 26, 2022 15:14 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsSeptember is National Recovery Month, but many advocates point out we can certainly recognize recovery year-round, including Keegan Wicks. He is the National Advocacy and Outreach Manager for Faces & Voices of Recovery. He works to ensure that the recovery spectrum of services is available and f...
SMART Recovery & Government
SMART Recovery® Podcast - September 08, 2022 14:06 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsDavid Koss, JD, is a member of the SMART Recovery Board of Directors and the Director of Government Relations. In his role as director, David monitors what the federal government is doing in terms of addiction and recovery legislation, and advocates for SMART and people with substance use disor...
Mind Body Medicine's Approach to Chronic Pain: An Interview with Dr. Howard Schubiner
Compass Opioid Stewardship Expert Spotlight - August 26, 2022 16:26 - 1 hourHosts Don Stader, MD and Rachael Duncan, PharmD sit down with Howard Schubiner, MD to discuss mind body medicine and the power of perception when it comes to pain. Dr. Schubiner discusses how the brain is responsible for much of the pain we experience and how we can harness this knowledge to red...
Subtracting the Complications
SMART Recovery® Podcast - August 18, 2022 17:10 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsSMART participant wellnessandhope( her screen name) says her “destruction of choice” started in her freshman year and continued throughout college. While her friends were graduating, she was in rehab. This was not how she thought her life was supposed to go. Eventually, though, it put her on a p...
Chronic Pain Advocacy: An Interview with Kate Nicholson, JD
Compass Opioid Stewardship Expert Spotlight - August 09, 2022 11:00 - 1 hourHosts Don Stader, MD and Rachael Duncan, PharmD sit down with Kate Nicholson, JD, the founder of the nonprofit National Pain Advocacy Center whose mission is to advance the health and human rights of people in pain. Kate discusses her entry into the field of pain and her own journey developing a...
Episode 43: Medical Prescribers LISTEN to your Patients
Benzodiazepine Awareness with Geraldine Burns - August 08, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis is an episode I’m doing by myself addressing medical professionals to be more informed and cautious when prescribing. I list reasons people were put on benzos from a survey years back. I list books and websites for them to educate themselves and I ask them to take responsibility fo...
You Don't Have to Eat Carrot Sticks Every Day
SMART Recovery® Podcast - August 04, 2022 12:57 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsMercy Bell’s relationship with alcohol started in college as a way to thwart the uneasiness she felt inside. It led her to a “recovery or else” situation. She used multiple paths and experiences along her journey to recovery. Today, Mercy is the co-owner of Sober Voices and Sourcing Voices, with...
Episode 42: Melissa Bond, Journalist - A Decision to Hold on a Taper
Benzodiazepine Awareness with Geraldine Burns - July 27, 2022 00:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsMelissa Bond is a narrative journalist and poet. In the years of her dependence on benzodiazepines, Melissa blogged and became a regular contributor for Mad in America. ABC World News Tonight interviewed her for a piece in January 2014. Melissa is a respected writer on the perils of o...
Episode 41: Jennifer DeGuilio: A Positive Attitude Through Tapering
Benzodiazepine Awareness with Geraldine Burns - July 22, 2022 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsJennifer DeGuillio is a wife, mother of four and a health coach, who specializes in ketogenic living, nutrition, health and wellness. She has coached hundreds of women, who have successfully sustained a healthy lifestyle. Jennifer loves sharing knowledge and helping others. She is a ...
Pulling the Me's Into the Conversation
SMART Recovery® Podcast - July 18, 2022 17:57 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsAlex Colyer realized she really didn’t know about addiction and recovery after losing her best friend Reed McGregor to an overdose in January 2021. To honor Reed’s memory and legacy, Alex started the Albertus Project, a nonprofit organization that is transforming the way the world views addictio...
Waiting for Someone to Show Up
SMART Recovery® Podcast - July 05, 2022 13:26 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsSteve Kind of Mankato, Minnesota, is a SMART Facilitator and new SMART employee. His alcohol struggles began in high school and continued into adulthood. After his second DUI, he was about to lose everything, including his wife. Then an open-minded, forward-thinking counselor suggested he look ...
Episode 40: A Nurse - THE ONE NO ONE THOUGHT WOULD HEAL, BUT DID!
Benzodiazepine Awareness with Geraldine Burns - June 20, 2022 00:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsBeth is a wife, mother and a Registered Nurse who is going to school to be a nurse practitioner and will be studying Functional Medicine once she gets her NP. She also has her degree in Psychology. She will tell you her amazing story from being one of the most debilitated survivors of...
Secular Alternatives to 12-Step are Now the Law
SMART Recovery® Podcast - June 14, 2022 16:40 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsCourts everywhere have mandated that secular, evidence-based addiction treatments, like SMART Recovery, must be offered to individuals as alternatives to 12-Step and other faith-based programs, if they so choose. Much of this is largely thanks to the tireless work of individuals like Sarah Levin...
Dr. Tom Horvath Reviews Dr. Nora Volkow’s Article
SMART Recovery® Podcast - June 14, 2022 16:29 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsDr. Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), recently published an article in Health Affairs Magazine that many in the recovery community consider “a game changer” in how it challenged received wisdom and old assumptions in the treatment of addicted individuals. ...
Video Game Addiction is REAL
SMART Recovery® Podcast - June 14, 2022 16:14 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsAlex received his first video game station at the age of two. His love and eventual addiction to video gaming continued throughout his life. It wasn’t until recently that Alex found SMART Recovery, and has made positive changes to his life and began managing his problematic behavior. In this i...
Episode 39: Jennifer Swantkowski, Ph.D. - Victim, Advocate, Author
Benzodiazepine Awareness with Geraldine Burns - June 11, 2022 17:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsJennifer Swantkowski has her masters in social work from the University of Houston, a post-graduate fellowship in End of Life Care, and a PhD in Clinical Social Work from Smith College in Northampton, MA. She has worked as a family therapist at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, M...
Benzodiazepine Tapering: An Interview with Dr. Alexis Ritvo
Compass Opioid Stewardship Expert Spotlight - June 03, 2022 01:45 - 1 hourHost Rachael Duncan, PharmD sits down with Alexis Ritvo, MD, an assistant professor at CU Anschutz School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Program Director at Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Colorado to discuss all things benzodiazepines. Tune in to learn about taper...
The Journey to Becoming Yourself
SMART Recovery® Podcast - June 02, 2022 14:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsAlicia Renegar is a Certified Addiction Peer Recovery Coach and SMART Facilitator in Columbus, Indiana. As a gay woman, she faced much adversity and discrimination throughout her life. She shares how she has turned this negativity into strength and is helping others on their path to recovery. ...
Could it be Time to Decriminalize Drugs?
SMART Recovery® Podcast - May 18, 2022 13:19 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsMaia Szalavitz is an award-winning, best-selling author and opinion writer, whose focus is on changing the narrative of addiction and recovery. Two of her books Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction and Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understa...
Opioids, Health Disparities and COVID-19: An Interview with Dr. Andrew Herring and Charles Hawthorne
Compass Opioid Stewardship Expert Spotlight - May 09, 2022 23:54 - 50 minutesHosts Don Stader, MD and Rachael Duncan, PharmD sit down with Andrew Herring, MD and Charles Hawthorne of CA Bridge to discuss healthy equity and disparities in the opioid epidemic. CA Bridge is a pioneering organization that expands access of evidence-based addiction care to those who use drugs...
Bridging the Gap Between Treatment and Recovery
SMART Recovery® Podcast - April 25, 2022 19:02 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsDr. Nora Volkow recently spoke to the SMART Recovery community about the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) holistic approach to helping those with substance use issues. As a follow up to that conversation, we talked with Dr. Wilson Compton, Deputy Director of NIDA and Dr. Will Aklin, Dire...
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