Sharing a Drug Intervention as Told by the Family

06/27/22 • 53 min

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The Addiction Podcast-Point of No Return

This podcast episode is an interview with Bobby Newman and the family of a young woman (Lexie) who participated in the intervention. The family members include her mother - Tammy; her grandmother - Diane; her great grandmother (deceased); and her Uncle Brian. These family members did what had to be done to save their young Lexie and get her to treatment. After completing the program at Narconon Arrowhead, Lexis is clean and sober and happy to share her story with others.

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Jeffrey B. Simon is a legal commentator and founding partner of SIMON GREENSTONE PANATIER, PC. Ranked as one of the Top 10 Personal Injury Attorney’s within America and Co-Chair of the National Opioid Litigation Conference, Mr. Simon is focused on bringing crucial legal, consumer protection, and public health issues to the forefront for mainstream audiences.

Jeffrey currently serves as Chair of the Texas Opioid MDL Plaintiffs Steering Committee, a group that seeks to hold drug manufacturers and other supply chain corporations responsible for their role in creating and prolonging the opioid epidemic in Texas. In 2017, he filed the state’s first opioid-related lawsuit against drug manufacturers and supply chain corporations on behalf of a governmental body. Jeffrey was one of the lead attorneys for Dallas County within the state’s first opioid trial. Jeffrey is a frequent speaker on the scope of the opioid epidemic. For the past three years Jeffrey has served as co-chair of the national Opioid Litigation Conference, bringing together medical, legal, and law enforcement experts to discuss how to reduce the social and economic harms of opioid overuse.

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