Twelve years ago, I was smoking crack, shooting dope, unhappily married, broke, and hopeless. My story isn't unique, but I'm one of the fortunate ones. I never wanted to do a podcast, but I see the world burning — substance use, depression, anxiety, suicide — and the conversations that need to happen aren't. This podcast is a platform to have these hard conversations. With experts, frontline heroes, voices we know and the many we need to know, my intent is to confront these issues head-on and, most importantly, offer solutions and hope.
In this episode, we explore groundbreaking approaches to substance use disorder, mental health and trauma with Dr. Carrie Wilkens, founder of Center for Motivation and Change (CMC), award-winning author, and a psychologist with over 25 years of experience in the practice and dissemination of...
Published 04/30/24
Dr. Michael McCormick was the chief of surgery of an Alabama hospital. He was also in the grips of an addiction to painkillers that nearly cost him his medical career, his family and his life. Doc McCormick is living proof that substance use disorder spares no one — even a prominent doctor well...
Published 04/23/24