Harm Reduction Radio - HAMS

Our guest this evening is Cynthia Hoffman, MFT who does couples counseling and harm reduction therapy groups in San Francisco.

Our guest this evening is Marlene Reil, PhD, CASAC who will be discussing co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Dr. Reil also specializes in mindfulness and smoking cessation.

John P Pasagiannis, PhD joins us this evening to talk about substance use and harm reduction among artists and young adults.

Andrew Tatarsky joins us this evening to talk about The Center for Optimal Living, Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and his book Harm Reduction Psychotherapy.

Our guest tonight is Denise Cullen, Executive Director of GRASP. GRASP stands for Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing. GRASP is a support group for people who have lost a loved one as a result of drug use. The GRASP book is called When a Child Dies From Drugs.

Our guest tonight is Michael Benibgui PhD who is currently a psychologist at the Center for Optimal Living and Project Director at Services for the Under Served and who in the past has been Clinical Director at GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis). We will be discussing his research and work with substance use and harm reduction in the LGBT community and his research on the Physiological Impacts Of Homophobia.

Renowned addictions expert Stanton Peele joins us for a year in review episode. We have covered a huge amount of ground with many brilliant people and we want to thank them all. Starting next week we will move to a less intense format of one half hour show per week, thus freeing up a lot of time to move on to new adventures.

Our guest tonight is Susan Collins Ph.D. of the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences who will be talking to us about her research on wet housing. Her studies show that homeless alcoholics who are allowed to drink in wet housing significantly reduce their alcohol consumption when compared to homeless alcoholics living on the streets. Moreover wet housing costs the city only a fraction of what it costs for alcoholics to live on the streets.

Our first guest is Anne Fletcher, author of Sober for Good and many other books.

Our second guest is Scott Elting from Draeger Diagnostics to talk about the Breathalyzer Ignition Interlock Device, BRAIID.

Our first guest is Bart Majoor, Clinical Director at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction, a syringe exchange and harm reduction program in the Bronx New York.

Our second guest is MADD founder Candace Lightner who will be talking to us about the Breathalyzer Ignition Interlock Device.