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Thank you Robert Lubran for your tireless advocacy for Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder. Your accomplishments exemplify the notion that slow and steady wins the race. We appreciate your taking the time to educate us and our audience on the back story of MAT.

About Robert Lubran:

My interest is in advancing the treatment of substance use disorders. Accessing treatment for many people is a difficult challenge because of the limited availability of treatment providers, lack of insurance coverage, inadequate information about treatment effectiveness, and stigma against the disease of addiction.

I retired after 39 years of federal service with the Veterans Administration and 26 years at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SAMHSA, where I headed the Division of Pharmacologic Therapies under the direction of Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH. Now I am a consultant on the use of medications for opioid use disorder. I chair the Board of Danya Institute, an organization that operates SAMHSA grants. I am a Board member of the National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery and Stop Stigma Now. I co-chair the Education Committee of the Maryland/DC Society of Addiction Medicine. In 1974 I established a methadone treatment program at the Jefferson County Center on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in Steubenville, OH.

Tom and Jenn Satterly are all about helping veterans and their families. Tom is a retired CSM Delta Force and Jen Satterly was previously embedded in Realistic Training Missions with Special Operations units as Director of Film and Photography. When their relationship began, Tom was not in a good place mentally, but could not figure out what was causing his anger and excessive drinking. He finally had a therapist explain to him that he was suffering from PTS and needed to deal with it. From that point on, things slowly began to change and as he began to help others, he truly found his calling. Their mission is to help Veterans returning home but more importantly to support the family. They know that helping the family members is a huge piece of the puzzle.

Learn more about their foundation and their Books below:

Command Sgt. Major (ret.) Tom Satterly served in the Army for 25 years, 20 of those years were spent in the military’s most secretive and elite Special Operations unit, Delta Force. As an Operator and CSM, Tom fought in and lead countless high profile military missions including Operation Red Dawn (Saddam Hussein’s capture) and the Battle of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down) which was the longest sustained firefight since Vietnam. That 18-hour firefight ended with Tom, along with several of his team mates, running the Mogadishu Mile to safety.

Although the physical, mental, and emotional toll of war had compounded over the years, Tom never faced his Post-Traumatic Stress symptoms and in 2013 he nearly ended his life. Had it not been a text from his now wife, Jen, he would have joined the 22 veterans who commit suicide every single day.

As Director of Film and Photography of an elite Special Operations training company, Jen embedded with Navy Seals, Green Berets, and Army Rangers in (RMTs) Realistic Military Training exercises sometimes for weeks at a time. During this time, she began to notice the same symptoms Tom was battling and began to ask questions. What was being done? Who is helping our warriors on the homefront heal? Who is helping the families with secondary PTS? She didn’t like the answers and became certified in health and wellness to better understand PTS and the body.

Tom and Jen decided something had to be done and the work they did together training and preparing warriors to fight overseas turned into a mission of helping warriors and their families fight the silent war and to heal from it on the homefront. The Satterlys founded All Secure Foundation in August 2017 as a resource library for helping warriors and their families navigate the maze of treatments and modalities of healing from PTS. They have worked individually with hundreds of warriors and their families and soon became more than a referral website but also a provider of education, awareness, and programs for healing.

In 2019 ASF launched one of the only programs in the country for warrior couples to tackle PTS and Secondary PTS together with Emotionally Focused Therapy through their Special Operations Warrior Couples Retreat Workshops. The program was so successful that they filled all 6 of the retreat workshops in 2020 in a single day. With additional funding, more workshop retreats will be added (to donate to or sponsor a retreat, please visit our DONATE page).

In 2020, All Secure Foundation has also began working directly with Special Operation units and the FRG (Family Readiness Group) by providing PTS Resiliency training at bases across the United States. In addition to working with the DOD, Tom and Jen also speak across the country to provide awareness and education on PTS including Congress, the Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs, The White House Communication Agency, USAA, Lockheed Martin, NAMI, and countless veteran organizations.

Greg Williams is an award-winning filmmaker who happens to be on the Youturn advisory board and joins us for a second podcast episode. Greg is always working to reduce the stigma surrounding substance use disorder and has always been open about his recovery. He is passionate about collegiate recovery programs as that is where he began his journey. He produced the groundbreaking film the Anonymous People and has worked on a new film that is out now called Tipping the Pain Scale. The theme from the film is "Addiction isn't a choice.

Compassion is." At youlearnyouturn, we couldn't agree more.