Harm Reduction Radio - HAMS

Our first guest is Howard Josepher, creator of the Exponents Arrive program, one of the first harm reduction programs in New York City.

 

Our second guest is Rae Eden Frank, former executive director and my former supervisor at Access Works needle exchange in Minneapolis.

Our first guest is Shilo Murphy, executive director of the Peoples Harm Reduction Alliance to talk about drug user stigma.

 

Our second guest is Michelle Dunbar, executive director of St Jude Retreat House. St Jude's has the highest independently verified success rate of any addiction treatment center--no 12 steps, no disease model, and no B*llsh*t.

Our first guest is Mona Bennett, Programs Coordinator for the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition. Our second geust is Richard Wilmot PhD, author of American Euphoria: Saying 'Know' to Drugs.

Our guest is Robert Childs, executive director of the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition who will discuss syringe decriminalization, overdose prevention, and the southern sex work harm reduction summit.

Our first guests will be representatives of VOCAL, a Brooklyn based harm reduction and social justice organization working to effect positive social change.

 

Our second guest is Dr. Edward Khantzian of Harvard University who is the originator of the self-medication hypothesis of addiction.

Scott Kellogg PhD of NYU will be discussing Transformational Chairwork (a technique derived from Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls' psychodrama) and its use in addictions treatment. We will also discuss Gradualism.

Your host Kenneth Anderson is joined by Allan Clear of the Harm Reduction Coalition for a discussion of the stigmatization of drug users and people who drink alcohol.

Our first guest is Sharon Stancliff MD of the Harm Reduction Coalition who will be discussing overdose prevention, naloxone (aka narcan), and Good Samaritan laws.

 

Our second guest is Lisa Dietz who operates the DBT Self Help website who will be discussing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

Our first guest will be Bill White, author of Slaying the Dragon, who will be talking about the rapid growth of the treatment industry in the US in the latter half of the 20th century as well as discussing some of the abuses which arose as a result of this rapid growth and attempts to address these abuses via codes of ethics, etc.

 

Our second guest is Dr. Steven Hayes, developer of ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Our first guest is Lance Dodes, MD, author of The Heart of Addiction and Breaking Addiction, who will discuss the psychology of addiction.

 

Our second guest is Paula DeSanto, founder and CEO of MN Alternatives, a non-12-step treatment program which incorporates harm reduction.