Harm Reduction Radio - Hams

Our guest is Peter Ferentzy, Ph. D., author of the novel The Corrective, a realistic picture of how hard drug users control their use and outgrow addiction which serves as a healthy antidote to media demonization and rehab hype about the wages of drugs being death.

Our guest is Dr. Susan Sered, author of Can't Catch a Break. We will be talking about homeless women, addiction, and the medicalization of deviance.  

Christopher Moraff talks about the opioid crises, overdose, methadone, buprenorphine, narcan, and the failure of rehab.

Our guest this evening is Holly Whitaker, founder of Hip Sobriety.

Our guest is Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol

Our guest this evening is Mark Sobell, Ph. D., who will talk about the guided Self Change program he operates with Linda Sobell Ph. D. at Nova Southeastern University in Florida for moderate drinking.

Our guest this evening is Carol Katz Beyer, co-founder of Families for Sensible Drug Policy.

Our guest this evening is Stanley D. Glick , Ph.D. , M.D., Professor Emeritus at Albany Medical College, who will be talking about his research on ibogaine and the ibogaine congener 18-MC (18-Methoxycoronaridine) and their potential as anti-addiction drugs.

Can a leopard change its spots? Is an ex addict the best person to be an addiction counselor? Our guest tonight, Trina Hope, Ph. D. of the University of Oklahoma discusses the stability of the quality of deviance over time and the Texas addiction treatment scandals where "clean" counselors engaged in rampantly dishonest behaviors.

Ibogaine has been long touted as a potential cure for heroin and other addictions. Premiere ibogaine researcher, Deborah C. Mash, Ph.D., Professor of Neurology and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami, talks about ibogaine safety and efficacy. Ibogaine is a substance derived from the iboga plant used in religious rituals of the Bwiti people of Africa because of its hallucinogenic properties.

Our guest this afternoon is Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.

Our guest this Morning is Marc Lewis, Ph. D., author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease. This amazing book is chock full of the latest neuroscience, telling not only how brains get addicted to drugs but also how they recover and heal, showing that neuroplasticity is a two-edged sword. A great antidote to the drug war propaganda put forth by NIDA.

Our guest this evening is Catherine Hiller, author of Just Say Yes: a marijuana memoir. Ms. Hiller shares with us a cultural/personal history of the past fifty years of cannabis.

Our guests this evening are Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Lisa Raville, Executive Director of the Harm Reduction Action Center in Denver Colorado.

Our guest today is Patty McCarthy Metcalf, executive director of Faces and Voices of Recovery. We will be discussing the meaning of recovery and ways for the harm reduction movement and the recovery movement to work together.

Our guest this evening is Meghan Ralston, harm reduction manager for the Drug Policy Alliance and author of many articles including I'm Breaking Up With the Word 'Addict' and I Hope You'll Do the Same.

Our guest today is Matthew Lebowitz of Yale University who well be discussing the negative impact of biological explanations for mental disorders on clinicians’ empathy.

Our guest this afternoon is Debra Rothschild, Ph. D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU and harm reduction psychotherapist in private practice in New York City.  

Our guest is Sean X. Luo, M. D., Ph. D. of Columbia University who will be talking about his research on precision medicine, connectomics, and addiction and how they relate to risk and reward.

Our guest this evening is Rebecca Tiger, Ph. D. author of Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System. Dr. Tiger is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College.