MedHeads

On this week’s MedHeads we chat with regular guest Maree Eisma, mental health social worker and we will be discussing the role that families play in a patient’s journey into addiction

On MedHeads this week, we chat with Tiffany Alston a drug and alcohol clinician about cognitive behavioural therapy and motivational interviewing

This week Maree discusses the reasons why therapists choose to treat patients with addiction, the role that trauma and families play in the initiation and perpetuation of addiction and how sometimes people with high levels of sensitivity and empathy sometimes chose drugs to numb themselves.

In this episode, we talk to two lived experience experts about their descent into substance misuse and the tipping point they both experienced that changed their view of their lives and led them ultimately into recovery. 

Zak discussed how his codeine dependency led him to lose friends and how his first contact with the medical profession was less than satisfactory. 

Kristen describes her use of alcohol in terms of an escape from the chronic psychological pain that she suffered as an adolescent growing up in England.

MedHeads is a show hosted by Dr Ferghal Armstromg, who is a practising GP with an interest in drug and alcohol addiction. 

MedHeads provides a forum in which contemporaneous issues can be discussed by various guest speakers who are all experts in their field.

This week we have two very special guests, Maree Eisma, a mental health social worker, and Ian Bunston, a community partnerships officer at Box Hill Central.

In this episode, we shall be discussing the need for social connectedness and purposeful activity and their role both in alleviating suffering in general and also in escaping the shackles of addiction.

We touch on subjects including the rat park experiment, the role of suffering and joy in life and we explore Ian’s programs at Boxx Hill central. Including “coffee with a cop.”