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.