Harm Reduction Radio - HAMS

Our guest this evening is Gilbert Ross MD, Executive Director of the American Council on Science and Health. Dr. Ross is the author of the Forbes article How Health Regulators Are Killing American Smokers. We will be discussing various tobacco harm reduction strategies including Swedish snus, electronic cigarettes, and smoking reduction.

Our guest this evening is Peter Venturelli, Ph. D., co-author of Drugs and Society.

Our guest this evening is Darrel Ray Ed. D. who is the author of The God Virus and Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality. He also operates the web site Recovering from Religion.

Our guest this evening is Jenny Barber who will tell us about her experience working in Eva's Satellite, a harm reduction youth shelter for 16 to 24 year olds in Toronto Canada.

Our guest is harm reduction therapist Pamela Smithbell who is the author of the paper From New Age to Neuroscience; Creating New Narratives with Meditation Programs and Guided Imagery in Addiction Treatment.

Our guest this evening is Robert Doyle, MD, DDS of Harvard Health Services. Dr. Doyle is co-author of the book Almost Alcoholic.

Our guest is Joseph Nowinski PhD, co-author of the book Almost Alcoholic and primary author of the Project MATCH 12 Step Facilitation Therapy Manual.

Our guest is Mason Tvert, co-author of Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? and executive director of saferchoice.org.

Our guest is Barry Lessin, M.Ed., CAADC who will be discussing his journey from being a traditional 12 step addictions counselor to becoming a harm reduction therapist.

Our guest this evening is Andrew Bairnsfather, founder of Christians Against Prohibition, and we will be discussing how the drug war is in violation of the basic ethical principles which inform the world's religions.