After the birth of her son, Jowita Bydlowska found herself celebrating with a glass of champagne. Just like that, her three years of sobriety were a distant memory and she began the rapid slide back to full-blown alcoholism. Jowita joins us to talk about her new book DRUNK MOM, the brutally honest story of her fight to stop drinking while facing the daunting reality of becoming a mom.

Experts are preparing for a "tidal wave" of baby boomers who will need help fighting addiction. Guest Dr. Barbara Krantz, Medical Director of the Hanley Center, joins us to talk about the addiction issues facing boomers today, and the treatment programs being created specifically for them.

How will “Big Marijuana” affect you on a local level? Tonight we're talking about the parallels between Big Tobacco and Big Marijuana, local marijuana legislation, and what it means to have a dispensary in your neighborhood. Guests Heidi Heilman, a founding member of the Massachusetts Prevention Alliance and the CEO of Edventi, and Bryan Cadogan, COO of Edventi, join us in studio.

Noah Levine, founder of the Against The Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, joins us to talk about Refuge Recovery, a systematic method of addiction recovery based on Buddhist principles. He is the author of “Dharma Punx”, “Against the Stream”, “Heart of the Revolution” and “Refuge Recovery”.

Dr. Lawrence Peltz, author of “The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery”, talks with us about how 'living in the moment' can aid in the recovery from addiction. Dr. Peltz is the medical director of the Bournewood Caulfield Center, a drug and alcohol treatment facility in Woburn, MA. He has worked with more than ten thousand recovering addicts over the course of his career. He is also a trained teacher of MBSR, and he speaks regularly to mental health professionals about mindfulness and recovery.

David Sheff (author of "Clean" and "Beautiful Boy") and Gabrielle Glaser (journalist and author of "Her Best Kept Secret") join us to talk about different treatment paths to addiction recovery, and how to “treat” the treatment industry when it’s not working.

Tonight we’re talking about substance abuse, addiction, and recovery in the American Indian community in our on-going series “Minorities and Addiction: How addiction affects specific communities across the country, and how those communities find treatment and recovery.” We’re joined by David A. Patterson, Silver Wolf, assistant professor at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, Lacina Onco, Site Manager at Native American Lifelines Boston and a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, and Janelle Pocowatchit, Outreach Coordinator at Native American Lifelines Boston and member of Mik’Maw First Nations and Comanche Nation of Oklahoma.

What's the connection between creativity and mental illness? And how do you treat creative people with addiction and mental health disorders? Tonight's guests are Debbie Costello Smith and Glenn Smith of the Sean Costello Fund Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research, and Professor Greg Murray, a clinical psychologist and professor at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia.

Addiction is a family disease. In this episode we're talking about strategies families can use to cope with a loved one in active addiction, and how they can heal throughout the recovery process.

Guests include Diana Clark, a specialist in addiction and family systems and the author of “Addiction Recovery: A Family's Journey”, and Ann and Jim, parents of a child in recovery who will share their story addiction in their family.

The United States has more people behind bars – 2.3 million – than any other country in the world, and nearly half of all federal prisoners are serving prison sentences for drugs. Barbara Dougan, MA Project Director, FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums), joins us to explain mandatory minimum sentencing for drug crimes, and the controversies surrounding them.