Rehab Confidential

What could be thought of as an ass kissing as Joe and Amy talk to Wes Hurt, founder of Clean Cause, the Yerba mate beverage that gives 1/2 profits to help recovering people in need and sponsors Rehab Confidential, turns into a lively chat. We talk building an economy, why recovering people don't financially support recovery, and how we can all do better.

Joe and Amy chat with social worker and founder of the Philipstown Behavioral Hub, Danielle Pack McCarthy. After Philipstown, NY lost many lives to the lethal overdose, Danielle created "The Hub", an innovative community-based program that gives residents a single point of entry to access local mental health and addiction programs, services and education.

Joe and Amy banter about the drug war turning 50, the WHO subjugating women and alcohol sales reaching record highs. Governor Tony Evers, of Wisconsin drops by to talk weed taxes and mental health among young people.

Season Two jumps off with Joe and Amy sitting down with Dr. Ryan Marino, emergency physician, medical toxicologist, professor and addiction medicine specialist who helps sort out fact from urban legend about Fentanyl

Joe and Amy sit down with Best Selling Kindle Singles author Mishka Shubaly. He chats to them about AA, his status as "unclean and sober", being a Jeopardy question and giving Jeff Bezos a donkey tooth souvenir.

Joe and Amy sit down with Vermont State Attorney Sarah Fair George. They cover policing reform, where mental illness intersects with the law, what countries do a better job and if Sarah should replace Bernie Sanders in the Senate.

Joe and Amy sit down with New York Times best selling author Jessica Lahey to talk about the Importance of letting kids fail, her own path to recovery and her new book "The Addiction Inoculation".

Joe and Amy chat with recovery counselor and harm reduction advocate, Guy Felicella. Guy talks them through Canadian drug policy, safe injecting facilities in Vancouver and how harm reduction saved his life and got him sober after 20 years of homelessness and addiction.

Joe and Amy sit down with Ben Levenson, former founder of Origins Behavioral Healthcare turned harm reduction advocate and philanthropist. Ben talks to Joe and Amy about lessons learned working in the industry, drug policy reform and the direction the treatment industry must go moving forward.

Joe and Amy sit down with openly gay Ex Deputy Sheriff Karen Moss (K Mo) who was in recovery while on the force. We discuss cop culture, the prejudice she faced as a woman officer and the rampant alcoholism, mental health issues and high divorce rates among the police. K-Mo tells us her opinion on police reform, the war on drugs, and most importantly how we can rebuild trust within the community.