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Today's episode focuses on stigma surrounding addiction, the language we use when talking about those facing addiction and our guest Rachel Shuster shares her personal story. Rachel, a lifelong Butlerite, person in long-term recovery from opioid use disorder, and a Certified Addictions Registered Nurse. Rachel brings a unique perspective as a behaviorial health professional with lived AND living experience of overcoming challenges with both substance use and mental health.

*This episode shares a personal story of drug use, overdose and recovery. Listener discretion is advised.

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Today's episode focuses on the physical side of addiction, what causes trauma, how it impacts our nervous system and our physical self and behavior. Joining me are Alyssa Vorel, Clinical Supervisor at the Ellen O'Brien Gaiser Center and Crystal a Certified Recovery Specialist at the Gaiser Center.

Alyssa Vorel is the clinical supervisor at the Ellen O'Brien Gaiser Center. Alyssa provides support to the inpatient and outpatient clinical departments on compliance and client programming needs.

Crystal is a Certified Recovery Specialist at the Gaiser Center. She has been employed with Gaiser since 2021. After 13 years of battling her own addiction, Crystal began her journey of recovery on May 26, 2018. She is a shining example of what can be achieved in sobriety.

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On January 25, 2024 I, Laura Crago Host of Alter Eagle Podcast, sat down with U.S. Representative Mike Kelly, R-16th, to discuss stigma surrounding addiction, the future of legislation and the loss of potential. Rep. Kelly and I had a brief conversation and a long conversation to come this season surrounding those topics.

The main focus was mental health as an underlying issue when it comes to addiction, and that conversation was with Dr. Brophy- medical director of the Gaiser Center and local physician who's board certified in both addiction medicine and emergency medicine, Joe Mahoney- executive director at the Ellen O'Brien Gasier Center, licensed social worker with 16 years of experience in the mental and behavioral health fields. and Alyssa Vorel from the Ellen O'Brien Gaiser Center, as well as Rachel Shuster- Certified Addictions Registered Nurse and person in long-term recovery from opioid addiction. The guests have decades of experience when it comes to recovery in addiction, the neuroscience, trauma, physical side as well as stigma surrounding addiction. You DO NOT want to miss this LIVE episode.

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The Butler Eagle has been reporting the daily news since 1870, bringing the facts, real stories of real events happening in our community and now we are here to bring you the voices to those stories. Each season is dedicated to bringing you local perspectives on a variety of topics we feel impact the day to day lives of our community. The Eagle is excited to enter the podcast world and bring the stories of Butler County to a whole new platform.

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