Let's Talk Addiction & Recovery
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Let's Talk Addiction & Recovery
Hear what leading addiction and recovery experts are talking about—addiction trends, topics and challenges as well as research, practices and advances that point the most promising way forward. Author and recovery advocate William C. Moyers serves as host of this thought-provoking interview series,...
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150 episodi
Hope Takes Center Stage
Writer Maggie Moe and composer Joshua Vranas are telling a new story about addiction and recovery that does away with shame and stigma. Instead of nor...
A Fountain of Hope for At-Risk Students
Susie Brooks, PhD, founder of Veritas Academy, felt powerless when students came into the classroom with substance use issues, or knew someone struggl...
Bullying Prevention and Community Solutions
Bullying causes long-term damage on students' mental health, often resulting in anxiety, depression or PTSD during a critical developmental stage. But...
All-Star Willie Burton – In a League of His Own
When Willie Burton was taken ninth in the 1990 NBA draft, he lost his defenses against addiction—a sensational talent through high school and college,...
Native Dads: Recovery through Reconnection Part 2
Intergenerational trauma. Unresolved grief. Stigma and isolation. Such complex and compound stressors can make recovery from substance use and other m...
Story of Hope
On set, Dedee Pfeiffer hears from other actors, crewmates and directors who are inspired by her forwardness—fearless in her pursuit of love and light...
Flipping the Script on Addiction
Addiction is often surrounded by shame and stigma—and both have dominated the different arenas of public discourse for much of human history. No more....
The Next Workplace Revolution
The next workplace revolution will likely hinge on employers' efforts to empower recovery. Post-covid, 20 percent of employees reported drinking durin...
Walking the Red Road of Wellness
Honesty. Compassion. Respect. Humility. Many of the guiding values of the Red Road way of life—a Native American path of wellness, balance and spiritu...
A Life Spent Helping and Healing
Serving as Chair of the American Indian Advisory Council and spending the past twenty years as an addiction counselor for his Native brothers and sist...
Radical Love and a Place to Belong
Philip Robert won't stay silent about the exploitation of his Native brothers and sisters: in Arizona, unregulated sober houses are taking advantage o...
Signs of Teen Fentanyl Use
Parents are rightly terrified of fentanyl. But what behaviors should set off alarm bells? And how can parents keep the conversation pointed in the rig...
How Kathryn Burgum is Reinventing Recovery
Shame and stigma kept Kathryn Burgum silent about her recovery for fifteen years. After she became First Lady of North Dakota, she learned from host W...
In Harm's Way: Health Risks of Teen Vaping
Marketed as safe and cool with fun flavors and clever devices, vapes are hooking a new generation on nicotine. Health experts warn that it's not only...
John Solomon Gives Voice to Healing and Hope
Out on tour after getting sober, indie-rocker John Solomon made a point of hosting conversations about addiction, mental health and recovery wherever...
Finding Hope When Addiction Takes Your Son
His birthday. His death day. Holidays. Family celebrations. That's when Linda Morrison feels the loss of her youngest son, Mike, most profoundly. But...
Practicing Recovery from "All the Things"
As author and advocate Dawn Nickel likes to say, "we're all recovering from something." For her, those somethings include alcohol, cocaine, anxiety, m...
How'd You Do It, Steve? A Personal Story of Hope and Recovery
Steve thought the world would come crashing when he packed his bags for treatment. A savvy businessman and CEO, he considered himself too successful,...
How to Help Someone Who's Addicted (Spanish)
Cómo ayudar a alguien que tiene una adicción
Nuestro primer impulso es ayudar y proteger a nuestros seres queridos. Pero cuando tienen una adic...
Protecting Our Families and Communities from Addiction (Spanish)
Proteger a nuestras familias y comunidades de la adicción
Aunque disponemos de más recursos para hispanohablantes que en años anteriores, la ca...
How to Choose the Right Outpatient Treatment Program
The search for addiction treatment is exhausting. How do you differentiate one program from the next? What factors are most important? This is unchart...
Why New Mexico Leads the Country in Alcohol-Related Deaths
What did journalist Ted Alcorn learn during his seven-part investigation into drinking trends in New Mexico? From uncovering why the state leads the U...
Most Common Obstacles to Recovery
Some obstacles to addiction recovery for the Native community are obvious and well documented, like underfunded health systems. But other, less obviou...
How to Relieve Stress and Anxiety without Substances
Millions of Americans are trying to medicate their anxiety with alcohol, marijuana and other drugs. This might work for a short time, but it opens the...
The Story of a Healing Spirit
This is the recovery story of Daisy Vanslyke, a gentle spirit who spends most of her time healing other people. In her every word and wisdom, she spea...
Coordinating the Care My Community Deserves
Chandell Boyd, LADC, joins host Andrew Williams to discuss her work with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, where she's an associate director for the Subs...
What Happens in Outpatient Treatment? Am I a Good Fit?
Much has changed in the world of addiction treatment. The standard model of care used to revolve around a 28-day stint inside a treatment center. But...
Dispelling the Myths Native Communities Recovery Equity
In this episode of Let's Talk Recovery Equity, journalist Ted Alcorn talks about his investigation into alcohol use in New Mexico, which has the worst...
The Veteran's Guide to Fighting Pain and Addiction
In this episode of Let's Talk, licensed psychologist and military veteran Dustin Brockberg, PhD, and his wife, Kerry Brockberg, PhD, also a psychologi...
How to Heal and Recover from Shame
Shame and addiction go hand-in-hand. Because of that, some of the most important work in recovery deals with the transformation of shame into somethin...
Aida's Recovery Story - Trapped in the Eye of the Storm
Aida was addicted to crystal meth and too sick to evacuate when hurricane Katrina battered the coast. Her daughter and family had sheltered in Dallas,...
How Trauma and Migration Affect the Treatment Process
Immigrants and refugees are often forced to flee from unimaginable crisis—their lives torn apart by war and other humanitarian disasters. Unfortunatel...
Great Work: the Cook Inlet Tribal Council
Daisy VanSlyke from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council shares how they're promoting recovery among Native Alaskan communities. Using culturally-sensitive c...
A Family’s Multigenerational Story of Hope and Recovery
Addiction passes from one generation to the next. But so too does the hope of recovery. This was the case for Judy and her family: Her mother was the...
Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Addiction
Indigenous children were stolen from their homes, sent to boarding schools and forced to assimilate. Thus began the cycle of trauma and addiction. Tod...
The Role of Historical Trauma
Host Andrew Williams speaks with his colleagues Cecelia Jayme, Director of Clinical Services, and Sarita McGowan, PhD. As two proud Native women in lo...
The Medicine of Community: Native Strong Men Project
Food. Touch. Connection. Music and Laughter. These are medicines, and when a person is healthy and whole, they become good medicine to others. That’s...
Teaching the Language of Recovery
Emi and Lina didn’t have the tools to process and make sense of their loved one’s addiction. They’re just kids, after all. But once they attended the...
Do I Have an Alcohol Use Disorder?
Has your drinking become problematic? You're not alone: the headlines have focused on opioids and fentanyl, but alcohol remains the most used and abus...
A Message of Hope for Parents with Addicted Children
A beautiful and fun-loving boy transformed when he began to experiment with substances. His father, Stephen, could hardly recognize him: he became "na...