This Is Your Brain on Harm Reduction

10/31/14 • 43 min

Our guest this evening is Jerry Otero who will talk about his time with drugfree.org (formerly The Partnership for a Drug Free America) and how they have adopted Narcan and harm reduction policies. He will also talk about his time in 12 step, how he left, and his current work at the Drug Policy Alliance.

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Our guest this afternoon is David Sheff, author of Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy. We will be discussing the addiction treatment industry and what it means to be evidence based.

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Selling Serenity: the big business of merchandizing the 12 steps

Our guest this evening is Andrew Meacham, author of Selling Serenity: Life Among the Recovery Stars who will be talking about the big business boom of 12 stepping in the 80s and 90s which continues to this day.