Harm Reduction Radio - HAMS

Our guest this evening is Rebecca Tiger, Ph. D. author of Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System. Dr. Tiger is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College.

Our guest this afternoon is Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. We will be discussing the similarity of addictions to facebook or games like Angry Birds to drug addictions. We will also address the moral imperative of using addicting apps as a means to help people improve their lives rather than simply generate revenue for the developer.

Our guest this evening is Mark Aronoff, MA, LMHC, author of One Toke: A Survival Guide for Teens. We will be discussing pot, adolescents, and safe use.

Our guest this afternoon is Marcus Bachhuber. MD, whose research has shown that states with medical marijuana have lower rates of opioid overdose deaths. The hypothesis is that patients are using cannabis as a painkiller instead of opioids.

Our guest this evening is Andrew Meacham, author of Selling Serenity: Life Among the Recovery Stars who will be talking about the big business boom of 12 stepping in the 80s and 90s which continues to this day.

Our guest this evening is Jerry Otero who will talk about his time with drugfree.org (formerly The Partnership for a Drug Free America) and how they have adopted Narcan and harm reduction policies. He will also talk about his time in 12 step, how he left, and his current work at the Drug Policy Alliance.

Our guest this afternoon is David Sheff, author of Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy. We will be discussing the addiction treatment industry and what it means to be evidence based.

Our guest this afternoon is Shaun Shelly who heads up and manages the addictions arm of Hope House Counselling Centre in Cape Town South Africa. He also writes the blog Addiction Information.

Our guest this evening is Eliza Player, author of Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within: An Addiction Memoir.

Our guest this evening is Carl Hart Ph. D., professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Columbia University and author of High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.