Author of Recovery 2.0, Tommy Rosen talks about his last 26 years on the journey of continuous recovery, and how he sees miracles as a sum total of conditions created intentionally for a favourable outcome.
Creator of Addicaid, Sam Frons matched the shortcomings of recovering in the real world with AI to create a platform and an ecosystem to support all on the journey to recovery.
Dr.Mary Caire, an expert in interventional pain management, discusses her observations of patients using opiates to manage chronic pain, the dangers of it and alternatives.
Ian discusses how high quality addiction psychiatry fills the gap in the continuum of care between primary care providers and their patients who aren’t responding to the initial interventions.
Author of Hold On To Your Kids, Dr. Gabor Maté discusses healing addiction in the context of family and parenting, why he views addiction as an attempt to respond to an experience and what childhood experiences have to do with it.
For many years it had been believed that a person that’s addicted basically had disruption of emotional limbic areas, the primitive areas of our brain. And what the stories have shown coming out initially from imaging people that are addicted but now into translating it into animal models for addiction is that it’s not just the limbic emotional pain but also the prefrontal cortical areas that are very much engaged in the addictive process.