Guest Kevin Griffin is a Buddhist author, teacher, and leader in the mindful recovery movement.  He teaches internationally in Buddhist centers, treatment centers, and academic settings.  Kevin specializes in helping people in recovery connect with meditation and a progressive understanding of the 12 Steps.

Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America’s jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. Journalist Alisa Roth joins us to talk about her new book "Insane", an urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons.

Author and journalist Johann Hari went on a three-year journey across the world to interview the leading scientific experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He joins us to talk about his findings in his book "Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression, and the Unexpected Solutions."

Author Sally Tisdale talks about her thought-provoking, yet practical perspective on death and dying in her new book "Advice For Future Corpses and Those that Love Them."

Award-winning journalist Catherine Price presents a practical, hands-on plan to break up—and then make up—with your phone. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good.

Artist Domenic Esposito and gallery owner Fernando Luis Alvarez join us to talk about using art to protest Big Pharma's role in the opioid epidemic. In June, they placed Esposito's sculpture, an 800 pound depiction of a spoon used to cook heroin, outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma, the makers of the painkiller OxyContin. Join us for an in depth talk with the men behind the protest.

Why do Americans with serious mental illness die 15-30 years before those without?  Our guest Dr. Dhruv Khullar says the disparity is in part due to the difference in the way health care is delivered to the mentally ill.  He talks about why that is and what can be done about it, this week on the Right Mind Media Podcast.

This week on the Right Mind Media Podcast we speak with Tom Harrison, author of the upcoming Family Addiction Guidebook: Everything You Need to Understand, Cope With, and Get Help for the World’s Most Bewildering Illness. The book is a practical and authoritative guide for families and friends looking to better understand addiction and how to get help for themselves and their loved ones.

Personal stories of addiction and recovery touch us the most and have the greatest potential to heal.

In the second installment of our series "Recovery Stories", we hear from a man whose experiences through anxiety, marijuana use, opiate addiction, and ultimately jail time, led to a journey of life-long recovery.