This series interviews experts in the addictions field, with a focus on evidence-based, cutting-edge approaches to substance abuse problems such as: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), pharmacotherapy, harm reduction, and many, many more. Your host Kenneth Anderson is the founder and CEO of The HAMS Harm Reduction Network and the author of "How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol."
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Seeking to Reduce Harm: Decriminalization, Harm Reduction and The United Church of Canada


The following is a podcast series that is presented by the United Church of Canada's Shining Waters Regional Council in relation to the proposal 'Decriminalization of Illicit Substances for Personal Use and Harm Reduction' that is before the General Council in 2022.
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A show about Harm Reduction, addiction and recovery. We discuss topics that you won't hear anywhere else. Anything from interviews on abstinence based models, harm reduction models, medication assisted treatment models of recovery to 12 step based, smart recovery and religious based models of recovery. We'll also cover controversial subjects such as safe injection sites, Racial drug policies. Our goal is to have an honest and open dialogue to help us heal together and learn from one another. ...
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Ep. 5 - Seeking To Reduce Harm - Nathaniel Erskin-Smith, Member of Parliament for Beaches-East York
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Summary The following podcast is the final in this series. Member of Parliament Nathaniel Erskin-Smith shares with us his engagement in harm reduction and decriminalization from within the government in power as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. He shares with us his experiences advocating for harm reduction and decriminalization services an…
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Seeking to Reduce Harm: Decriminalization, Harm Reduction and The United Church of Canada


This introductory podcast features Dr. Rick Csiernik, a professor in the Province of Ontario but someone who has studied and engaged harm reduction, substance use, and social services from both the front lines to academics. Dr. Csiernik has written many books about drug use and our relationship with these conversations that are worth noting (many o…
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Summary This podcast’s conversation is centred around the work and ministry of Prairie Harm Reduction in their community. Prairie Harm Reduction’s website states that their mission is to “improve the quality of life for all members of our community through gold standards in Harm Reduction, emphasizing local action with national impact.” Prairie Har…
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Summary In this episode, we speak with David Wilks the Mayor of Sparwood, British Columbia and the former Member of Parliament for Kootenay-Columbia. David shares about his lived experience with alcohol and his addiction to the substance. On March 12th, 2015, David shared the following speech in the House of Commons: Mr. Speaker, on January 27-28 o…
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Seeking to Reduce Harm: Decriminalization, Harm Reduction and The United Church of Canada


Summary This podcast’s conversation is centred around the work that Member of Parliament Gord Johns is working on regarding his private members bill, Bill C-216, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to enact the Expungement of Certain Drug-related Convictions Act and the National Strategy on Substance Use Act, which will brin…
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A weekly show about addiction, mental health, spiritual health, emotional health, and recovery. We also dig deeper into these subjects than most shows dare. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/harmreductionradio/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/harmreductionradio/support
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Let's start with U.S. House members, senators, candy doctors, and Purdue pharma. The biggest drug dealers of all. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/harmreductionradio/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/harmreductionradio/support
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In this episode I talk about legislation in Indiana call HB 1359 which will allow police to charge drug users with murder if they have the substance that caused the overdose to the overdose victim. Will this increase drug deaths? Or decrease overdose deaths? What does the data show? While this is Indiana news around the opioid epidemic, this could …
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Feds to budget 6 billion in 2018 for the opioid crisis, it's not enough. meanwhile btown police department is purchasing a $225,000 armored vehicle because of all of the shootouts they had with the bad guys in Bloomington this year. Makes sense to me. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/harmreductionradio/messageSupport this podcast: htt…
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Indiana #1 in Child abuse deaths & children in state care double nat average--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/harmreductionradio/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/harmreductionradio/support
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Latest news from the world of addiction --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/harmreductionradio/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/harmreductionradio/support
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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Christopher Moraff talks about the opioid crises, overdose, methadone, buprenorphine, narcan, and the failure of rehab.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Holly Whitaker, founder of Hip Sobriety.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest is Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Carol Katz Beyer, co-founder of Families for Sensible Drug Policy.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.…
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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 o…
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Our guest this afternoon is Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.由Kenneth Anderson
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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 propagand…
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this afternoon is Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. We will be discussing the similarity of addictions to facebook or games like Angry Birds to drug addictions. We will also address the moral imperative of using addicting apps as a means to help people improve their lives rather than simply generate revenue …
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Our guest this evening is Mark Aronoff, MA, LMHC, author of One Toke: A Survival Guide for Teens. We will be discussing pot, adolescents, and safe use.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this afternoon is Marcus Bachhuber. MD, whose research has shown that states with medical marijuana have lower rates of opioid overdose deaths. The hypothesis is that patients are using cannabis as a painkiller instead of opioids.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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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.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this afternoon is Shaun Shelly who heads up and manages the addictions arm of Hope House Counselling Centre in Cape Town South Africa. He also writes the blog Addiction Information.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Eliza Player, author of Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within: An Addiction Memoir.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Carl Hart Ph. D., professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Columbia University and author of High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Jenna Hollenstein, author of Drinking To Distraction. You don't need to hit bottom to decide to quit drinking.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Adam Sledd who writes for The Fix as well as having his own blog. We will be talking about the compatibility of drug legalization and recovery.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest today is Bernadette Pauly, Ph. D. of the school of nursing at the University of Victoria, BC, who will be talking about Homelessness, Harm Reduction, and Social Justice.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Peter Myers, Ph D, author of Becoming An Addictions Counselor: A Comprehensive Text.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Michael Pond, author of The Couch of Willingness: An Alcoholic Therapist Battles the Bottle and a Broken Recovery System who will be discussing his own personal experiences within the substance abuse treatment system and what is wrong with it.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Sacha Z. Scoblic, contributor to The New Republic, The Fix, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Reader's Digest, and The New York Times, and author of Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety. We will be discussing disease theory, choice theory, methadone and buprenorphine maintenance therapy, 12 step, harm reduction, rehab, addiction an…
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Our guest this evening is BJ Fogg, Ph D of Stanford University who will be talking about the tiny changes model of behavioral change.由Kenneth Anderson
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Our guest this evening is Wendy McEntyre who is fighting to establish laws to regulate and license sober living houses. Wendy's son Jarrod died of a heroin overdose in a sober living house.由Kenneth Anderson
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Researchers have long known that nicotine has a beneficial effect on reducing the symptoms of schizophrenia. Over 90% of schizophrenics smoke. Our guest Helen Redmond discusses the benefits of e-cigarettes as a safe nicotine delivery device for schizophrenics. Redmond is the author of the article Here’s Why We Should Give E-Cigarettes to Mentally I…
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Our guest this evening is Jeffrey Junig MD who will be talking about suboxone.由Kenneth Anderson
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