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Actor, Producer and Restaurateur Danny Trejo (@officialDannyT) loves "playing the bad guy in movies, because the bad guy always dies. That's the real world. If someone asked me to play a bad guy that always gets away with it, I'd pass. That's the very message I preach to youths who are in crisis and in trouble: the bad guy always loses and the good guy always wins. It's the one thing movies and real life see eye-to-eye."

Trejo has developed a prolific career in the entertainment industry. His road to success has been hard earned and is anything but typical. From imprisonment to helping young people battle drug addiction, acting to producing, Trejo's name, face, and achievements are well recognized in Hollywood. Trejo grew up on the streets of Los Angeles. Despite spending the latter part of his youth and early adulthood incarcerated, he has risen to become a great actor and better person. Upon his release from Soledad Prison, Danny became involved in programs aimed at helping those who, like him, battled or are battling drug and alcohol addictions.

Steppin' Out Radio is proud to present this special webseries with Joycelyn Woods of Stop Sigma Now, a group dedicated to eradicating the stigma associated with the medical treatment of addiction. They believe no one taking medication to overcome opiate addiction should feel ashamed or disgraced.

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Steppin' Out Radio is proud to present this special webseries with Dr. Phil Paris of Stop Sigma Now, a group dedicated to eradicating the stigma associated with the medical treatment of addiction. They believe no one taking medication to overcome opiate addiction should feel ashamed or disgraced.

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Recovery Coaching is a non-clinical support for people seeking recovery from addiction, and for the families living with someone struggling with addiction or in recovery. The recovery coach helps to outline the plan for recovery. A coach assists the client in setting goals and supports their achievement. And they help to navigate the transition into a new lifestyle.

Chris DeTora

Chris DeTora is a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach and a coach trainer. He has worked for several years in treatment, recovery and prevention, both developing and delivering programs. They have ranged from educating families on the effects of addiction and recovery on their lives and relationships to providing alternatives for at-risk youth. He has trained coaches in prevention principles for community based youth organization as well as addiction counselors in alternate treatment methods and wellness methods. Using his background in Kung Fu, he developed a program to use martial arts as an adjunct to treatment by integrating the principles of martial arts into the program of recovery. He is also a person in long-term recovery from addiction.

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Steppin' Out Radio is proud to present this special webseries with Dr. Herman Joseph of Stop Sigma Now, a group dedicated to eradicating the stigma associated with the medical treatment of addiction. They believe no one taking medication to overcome opiate addiction should feel ashamed or disgraced.

About Dr. Joseph:

Herman Joseph, PhD worked for over 50 years as a social research scientist in the interrelated fields of addiction, treatment, criminal justice, street studies, homelessness, basic research and program development at the NYC Office of Probation, the Rockefeller University and the NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS).

Dr. Joseph authored or co-authored about 125 published papers and government reports and, with David Courtwright and Don DesJarlais, co-authored the book, Addicts Who Survived. With Dr. Barry Stimmel he edited the book, The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction. He was editor of special issues of the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Addictive Diseases and has also given numerous presentations on addiction and other issues at national and international conferences. He has received numerous awards for his work in the field.

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Recovery Coaching is a non-clinical support for people seeking recovery from addiction, and for the families living with someone struggling with addiction or in recovery. The recovery coach helps to outline the plan for recovery. A coach assists the client in setting goals and supports their achievement. And they help to navigate the transition into a new lifestyle.

Chris DeTora

Chris DeTora is a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach and a coach trainer. He has worked for several years in treatment, recovery and prevention, both developing and delivering programs. They have ranged from educating families on the effects of addiction and recovery on their lives and relationships to providing alternatives for at-risk youth. He has trained coaches in prevention principles for community based youth organization as well as addiction counselors in alternate treatment methods and wellness methods. Using his background in Kung Fu, he developed a program to use martial arts as an adjunct to treatment by integrating the principles of martial arts into the program of recovery. He is also a person in long-term recovery from addiction.

Click to Play Recovery Coaches Corner #2

Recovery Coaching is a non-clinical support for people seeking recovery from addiction, and for the families living with someone struggling with addiction or in recovery. The recovery coach helps to outline the plan for recovery. A coach assists the client in setting goals and supports their achievement. And they help to navigate the transition into a new lifestyle.

Chris DeTora

Chris DeTora is a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach and a coach trainer. He has worked for several years in treatment, recovery and prevention, both developing and delivering programs. They have ranged from educating families on the effects of addiction and recovery on their lives and relationships to providing alternatives for at-risk youth. He has trained coaches in prevention principles for community based youth organization as well as addiction counselors in alternate treatment methods and wellness methods. Using his background in Kung Fu, he developed a program to use martial arts as an adjunct to treatment by integrating the principles of martial arts into the program of recovery. He is also a person in long-term recovery from addiction.

Click to Play Recovery Coaches Corner #1

Steppin' Out Radio is proud to present this special webseries with Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek of Stop Sigma Now, a group dedicated to eradicating the stigma associated with the medical treatment of addiction. They believe no one taking medication to overcome opiate addiction should feel ashamed or disgraced.

About Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek

Dr. Kreek is a Senior Attending Physician, Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor at the Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases at The Rockefeller University in New York City.

Mary Jeanne Kreek, MD

An estimated 25 to 33 percent of people who take a short-acting opiate drug — usually heroin — develop an addiction to it. This suggests that some people are naturally more vulnerable to addiction than others and that genetics may play a role along with direct drug-induced effects and environmental and psychological factors. Dr. Kreek investigates how genetic factors, as well as neurobiological alterations, factor into addictive diseases such as opiate addiction, nicotine addiction, cocaine dependency and alcoholism.

Dr. Kreek is well known for her pioneering work in the development of methadone maintenance therapy for heroin addiction in the 1960s, a therapy that has become common practice throughout the world. She also was one of the first to document that drugs of abuse significantly alter expression of specific genes in specific brain tissues and alter normal perceptions of reward and dysphoria.

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Steppin' Out Radio is proud to present this special webseries with Dr. Robert Newman of Stop Sigma Now, a group dedicated to eradicating the stigma associated with the medical treatment of addiction. They believe no one taking medication to overcome opiate addiction should feel ashamed or disgraced.

About Dr. Robert Newman

Robert Newman, MD

For over 40 years Dr. Newman has played a major role in planning and directing some of the largest addiction treatment programs in the world . Throughout his career he has championed the right of drug-dependent persons to treatment access and to be cared for under the same conditions as apply to the management of all other chronic medical conditions.

Dr. Newman is currently Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In 2014 Dr. Newman was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Government of Japan for his contribution to medical care and education for Japanese in the New York metropolitan area. Click to Play Part 4 of "Stop Stigma Now"

Steppin' Out Radio is proud to present this special webseries with Dr. Robert Newman of Stop Sigma Now, a group dedicated to eradicating the stigma associated with the medical treatment of addiction. They believe no one taking medication to overcome opiate addiction should feel ashamed or disgraced.

About Dr. Robert Newman

Robert Newman, MD

For over 40 years Dr. Newman has played a major role in planning and directing some of the largest addiction treatment programs in the world . Throughout his career he has championed the right of drug-dependent persons to treatment access and to be cared for under the same conditions as apply to the management of all other chronic medical conditions.

Dr. Newman is currently Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In 2014 Dr. Newman was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Government of Japan for his contribution to medical care and education for Japanese in the New York metropolitan area.

Click to Play Part 3 of "Stop Stigma Now"