SAFE RECOVERY

A one hour show with host Monica Richardson filmmaker ( The 13th Step film ) and activist. Join us for a 1 hour discussion with a Drug Treatment Counselor who talks about his experience with driving clients to meetings.

A one hour show with host Monica Richardson, activist, filmmaker and victims advocate for those harmed and forced to AA. After eight years of work within AA, then leaving AA, exposing it and trying to make change happen- I still wondered how do people get so brainwashed by AA so fast. I often thought the three readings done at every meeting had a part in it, but was not sure in what way. Last week, late at night, I turned on the TV. Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman was on. He was interviewing a Professor in the Middle East who was explaining how people can get radicalized so fast. I was pulled in. Intrigued. So we watched. Sure enough the Professor talked about how switching from using the words "I and me" to "Us and We", a person starts to make differnent conections with the group being more important. AA is filled with that. AA very directly says in its literature that the "Group must live or  the individual will surely DIE" ! No science in that. We want to promote alternative treatment to AA and its 12 steps, groups and ideology. We promote using Science, kindness,  medicine and Professional therapy.

Join host and Documentary filmmaker Monica Richardson for a one hour show discussing how the lies are woven and told through story, film, TV and interviews with famous actors, writers, singers and musicians about what AA really is and what it is not. CBS 48 Hours, The Sober Trtuh has exposed AA, and investigated this story as well as  Katie Couric.

Please read articles by: Gabrielle Glaser on ProPublica, The atlantic, The Daily Beast and Readers Digest and Lance Dodes, The Sober Truth.

Join Host Monica Richardson for a 30 minutes show about deprogramming from any 12 step program. Simple and easy.

A conversation with a Southern California local about forced attendence to AA and host Monica Richardson. Unknown to Monica when she began the work is that 1,4 million people are forced by DUI courts to attend AA. Pilots, Nurses and Doctors are forced too. Many more are made to join an org from the 1930's. How is this happening and how can we stop it?

We called NY GSO last week and the week before. We mailed our petition months ago with almost 500 signatures. But AA NY has not called me back yet. I heard they were having a Board Meeting last week. Yesterday a blogger posted the link on my Facebook group we have for Deprogramming from AA. This memo is a good beginning but still coming from a Multi Million dollar Non profit- Its total BS that they think they do not have to have a Sexual harassment Policy.

They also need to get out of the FAA , The Board of Nursing and The ASAM> for Medical Doctors. Oh and btw you can be a rehab and not have any real over site. No medical staff. But INsurance will pay for your 1935 cult.

Monica Richardson interviews Mike Bassett who is featured in the HBO New Documentary Risky Drinking  calling in from ST Thomas. Mike was a radio and TV host in Denver, Colorado. He and his drinking was Documented in this 1 hour feature that addresses drinking as a substance use Disorder. A first ever in a Network show to not just promote AA or 12 step. Moderation Mangement , Harm Reduction , SMART Recovery, Naltrexone, Vivitrol and Antabuse and other options are mentioned .

Join host Monica Richardson, filmmaker of The 13th Step now streaming on AMAZON for a 1 hour show with Cult Deprogrammimng expert Rachel Bernstein. We wll be taking "live " callers to ask questions.

A live show and interview with Dr. Joe Gerstien from Massachusetts, with host Monica Richardson. Please join us live and in the chat room for any questions and comments.

Joseph Gerstein was the Founding President of the Alcohol & Drug Abuse Self-Help Network, Inc., d/b/a SMART Recovery in 1994. He introduced Rational Recovery into the Greater Boston area, then oversaw its spread throughout Massachusetts. In 1994, he participated in the creation of the new non-profit entity: SMART Recovery. Subsequent to his term as President, he was elected Treasurer, a post he held until elected President again for 2017. Dr. Gerstein has at various times served on the Boards of 10 non-profit organizations. He has served on a variety of Committees of SMART Recovery.

Dr. Gerstein practiced Internal Medicine and Pain Management at a Harvard-affiliated hospital and served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine on that Faculty for almost 30 years. In 1987 he formed Mount Auburn Community Independent Practice Association, the most successful such entity in Massachusetts, which now has over 500 physicians and 70 employees. For the last 10 years of his career he also served as Medical Director or Senior Vice-President of Tufts Health Plans, a non-profit HMO recently rated #1 in the US by US News & World Report. While there, he sued TAP Pharmaceutical on behalf of the Federal Government under the False Claims Act, achieving a guilty plea and fines and rebates of almost $1 billion to the Treasury. 2 years ago he served as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University related to his experience in the Tufts positions.

Dr. Gerstein has personally facilitated over 3000 SMART Recovery meetings, almost 800 in prisons.

Dr. Gerstein and his wife received the American Humanist Association's Humanist Pioneers Award for their work in SMART Recovery and Dr. Gerstein was recently named Harvard Humanist of the Year

Join host and Filmmaker Monica RIchardson for a new live one hour show with a Pilot who is speaking out against being foreced to go to AA meetings, to go to expensive rehabs , even while sober. The HIMS program which was created by AA members and Birds of a Feather, an AA based support group forced on Pilots. They are treated worse then criminals. How, why and when did the FAA think it was a good idea to force these professionals to unregulated lay person meetings based on the highly religious Oxford groups, and send them against their will?