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Nicole Lamberson is a Physician Assistant residing in Virginia. She obtained a BS at James Madison University in 2000 and then went on to complete the Master of Physician Assistant program at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2004. She practiced in Urgent Care and Occupational Medicine settings until severe illness from prescribed psychiatric medication polypharmacy and a subsequent protracted withdrawal syndrome left her unable to work. Aside from her role with Medicating Normal doing marketing, distribution and outreach, she co-founded The Withdrawal Project, an effort of the nonprofit, Inner Compass Initiative. She also serves on the Medical Advisory Board of Benzodiazepine Information Coalition and is a founding member of the Colorado Consortium's Benzodiazepine Action Work Group. She also founded and co-administrates a small support group for those injured by prescribed psychiatric medication. In the future, Nicole hopes to practice again with a focus on prescribed medication withdrawal management and also participate in education initiatives around psychiatric drug withdrawal for medical prescribers.Award-winning filmmaker, and co-director/producer of Medicating Normal, Lynn Cunningham produced, directed and edited films/TV for PBS and the History Channel in the 1980s and 90s (A Quiet Revolution: The Emergence of Alternative Education in Japan; Twenty Years of Co-Education; A Family in Progress; An Innovator’s Story, Behind the Scenes, Walter Reuther & the Birth of the UAW, Tadao Ando, Butoh: A Body on the Edge of Crisis, etc).Twenty years ago, as she was becoming a parent herself, Lynn witnessed with crushing despair the dramatic transformation of a beloved family member. Once a bright, high-functioning scholar/athlete having graduated from an elite college, Lynn’s relative had become in a few short years– a terrified, suicidal shell of her former self— diagnosed with serious mental illness. Putting their faith in the best psychiatric standard of care at the time in the late 90s, Lynn and her family were initially reassured by the relief and stability provided by medication and therapy. After a ten-year period, however, one medicine had become ten, and income from a vibrant, self-sufficient career was replaced with monthly disability payments. Unable to provide an answer to her relative’s persistent self-doubt, “Is everything going to be OK?”” Lynn began searching for answers. She joined with her filmmaking partner Wendy Ractliffe, embarking on five years of research into the complex world of mental health treatment. After discovering Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic, they interviewed 100s of psychiatric patients and consulted with scores of experts across the country about their experiences. A personal quest to help one suffering individual turned into a mission to tell an untold story. In Medicating Normal, Lynn and Wendy began to piece together a stunning new perspective on the safety and efficacy of psychiatric drugs and society’s over reliance on them to relieve pain and suffering.https://medicatingnormal.com/http://withdrawal.theinnercompass.org/http://www.theinnercompass.org/http://www.benzoinfo.com/https://corxconsortium.org/work-groups/benzodiazepine/***********************************Please visit our podcast website at https://therehab.comAnd Dr. Leeds' professional website at https://drleeds.comThank you!

Daniella’s deep care of herself, and the choices she made to support her own health, allowed her to turn the traditional restaurant model upside down. Daniella’s commitment to a menu free of gluten, grain, dairy, and refined sugar, coupled with a no compromise commitment to only cook with avocado oil, and defining a plant-focused menu featuring small amounts of impeccably sourced animal protein, is the core of what the Real Coconut Kitchen represents today. The Real Coconut brand has now expanded from its flagship location at her Sanara hotel in Tulum, Mexico, with a full restaurant in Malibu, California, and the opportunity to deliver many of the Real Coconut’s menu staples, to the Los Angeles community, and beyond, through the Real Coconut Market. Her first cookbook, “Nourish Yourself Nurture Our World” was released in the summer of 2021.Visit Daniella at these websites:https://www.daniellahunter.com/https://www.realcoconutkitchen.com/If you have found this episode to be interesting and helpful, please visit Dr. Leeds at https://drleeds.com and https://therehab.com. Thank you for listening!

Tom Davis MD FAAFPDr. Tom Davis is a healthcare expert and consultant who is also co-founder of New Script, a community for healthcare professionals to communicate and share ideas. One of the missions of New Script is to motivate doctors to consider leaving jobs at large healthcare organizations and to start their own medical practices and side work to gain freedom from an abusive system.The idea of New Script was so appealing to doctors who learned about it, without any marketing efforts at all, the platform signed up hundreds of new members in just the first few days of operation. Joining is as easy as downloading the smartphone app for iOS or Android and joining with a new account.In this interview, we discuss the state of healthcare, issues such as direct primary care, physician burn out and gaslighting, and oppression by an educational system designed to keep doctors employed in abusive jobs.I am personally excited to see the evolution of New Script and the conversations that take place on the platform.Learn more about New Script here: https://newscriptcommunity.com/.

Dr. Roland Engelbrecht is a family physician in British Columbia, Canada, who has dedicated his medical practice to addiction treatment. He is also a member of the Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder Society, founded by Dr. Jeff Harries.The goals of CAUDS include educating the public about alcohol use disorder and how it is a medical condition that deserves compassion, not stigma. CAUDS also works to educate healthcare providers and the public about proven medical treatments that are effective in helping people to overcome alcohol addiction.While previous episodes on this podcast have focused on the use of naltrexone in treating alcohol use disorder, there are other medical treatments which can be helpful, in addition to naltrexone, or as an alternative for people who cannot tolerate naltrexone. There are also people who do not respond well to naltrexone, so adding additional medication can sometimes be helpful.Now, that medication assisted treatment of alcohol use disorder is becoming more commonplace, mainly as a harm reduction method in the form of The Sinclair Method, it is important that patients and their doctors understand that there are additional treatments available that can help to make their program more effective, if needed.I hope that this podcast episode is helpful in providing useful information to patients who can share it with their doctors, and for doctors who are looking for additional resources to offer their patients. For more information on the topics discussed in this episode, please visit http://www.cauds.org/, and please follow CAUDS on social media.Twitter handle: @cauds_orgFacebook page: https://www.facebook.com/caudsorgAlso, for more great podcast episodes and articles, please visit https://therehab.com and https://drleeds.com.

Dr. Abe Malkin is a physician, entrepreneur, and investor, with a passion for building and growing companies in the health and wellness industry. His specialties include concierge medicine, addiction medicine, and anti-aging treatments, such as stem cells and hormone therapy. He has been featured on many top news shows as a medical expert on health issues ranging from flu prevention to the opioid crisis.Dr. Malkin graduated from Tufts University with both an M.D. and M.B.A. degrees. He is double board certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. He is the founder of Concierge MD Los Angeles, Drip Hydration, Elite Home Detox, and he serves as medical director and physician at multiple rehab centers.Dr. Malkin believes in "well-care" as opposed to "sick-care," focusing onprevention and best practices for staying healthy and maintaining a strongimmune system. His practice covers three main pillars: General Medicine,Addiction Medicine, and Regenerative Medicine.General medical services include functional medicine such as lab testing,stool tests, allergy tests, blood work, vitamin deficiency testing, STD checks,general health appointments and more.Addiction medicine through Elite Home Detox includes services like drugtesting, drug & alcohol counseling, family counseling, interventions, mentalhealth stabilization, NAD IV treatments, and an in-home detox with a live-innurse (for a 5-7 day period.)Regenerative Medicine aims to reverse aging and destruction in the body.Services include various peptide treatments via IV or self-injection, vitaminIVs through Drip Hydration, embryonic stem cell therapy, Botox, and more.Please visit our podcast website here: https://therehab.com/And Dr. Leeds’ website here: https://drleeds.com.Thank you!

The Sinclair Method (TSM) is a form of medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder. TSM helps people to reduce their alcohol consumption by taking an opioid receptor blocking medication before drinking. Over time, the alcohol habit is erased from the brain, leading to the extinction of the habit.The basics of TSM are simple and straightforward. Yet, the implementation can be a bit more complicated. How often do you take the tablet and drink? Do you have to drink on days when you don’t feel like drinking? Should you drink on a schedule, or pay attention to alcohol cravings? How do you know you are having an alcohol craving? What do you do when you have intolerable side effects from medication?There are many questions that come up when a person has a prescription bottle in hand, filled with naltrexone, the opioid blocker most often used by US patients who practice TSM. Doctors who agree to help their patients by prescribing naltrexone are not always experienced at helping out with the details of an individualized TSM program.This is where a qualified TSM coach can be helpful. A TSM coach is someone who has extensive experience in addressing the issues that can arise when unique individuals attempt to follow the program.Samara Ibanez is a coach with many years of experience in helping people to overcome addictions, including alcohol addiction. She is aware of the many hurdles and pitfalls that may show up when a person attempts to follow TSM. Her problem-solving approach is effective in helping people to find ways to make TSM work for them. For people who have begun the TSM journey, and are looking for professional support to ensure smooth sailing towards extinguishing the alcohol habit, Samara Ibanez may have the answers they are looking for. As a certified TSM coach with personal experience of overcoming many difficulties and finding great success in the program, Ms. Ibanez is prepared to help others to find success as well.Please visit our websites for more great podcast episodes and informative articles. https://drleeds.com and https://therehab.com.

It was a pleasure to speak with David Poses on the podcast about his unique and fresh perspective on drug use, opioid addiction, medication-assisted treatment, and harm reduction.As a writer, speaker, expert and activist, David Poses is focused on evidence-based addiction treatment, drug policy, and harm reduction. His writing has been published by Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and NY Daily News (among others), and he's appeared on various TV and radio shows and podcasts. He is the author of "The Weight of Air: a memoir of a double life, fueled by addiction and mental illness." Depression was David's gateway to heroin/opioid addiction. He started using at 16 and kept his struggle hidden long after he got sober with Buprenorphine at age 32. Ten years later, in 2018, he realized his silence was working against the changes he wanted to see in the world. How could he expect anyone else to talk openly about their addiction or mental health issues if he denied the existence of his? David set out on a mission to share his experiences with the world through his books, public speaking, and bylined articles for major media.David lives in New York with his wife and kids, and many instruments he can't really play.https://davidposes.com/homehttps://twitter.com/davidthekickhttps://www.instagram.com/david_thekick/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sesop/Please visit Dr. Leeds' practice website: https://drleeds.comand his podcast website: https://therehab.com

Alcohol addiction is a serious and difficult condition to overcome. There are many different medical services that, when used together, can help treat and prevent addiction. As simple as this seems, many people neglect these solutions until it is too late.Have you heard about the C Three Foundation?The C Three foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for The Sinclair Method, or TSM. TSM is a way to reduce alcohol consumption for people who suffer from alcohol addiction and for gray area drinkers.Jenny Williamson is the Executive Director of the Board of Directors of the C Three Foundation. She works hard to increase awareness of TSM so that more alcohol dependent people will have the opportunity to learn more about this form of pharmacological extinction that essentially erases the alcohol habit from the brain.Unfortunately, the treatment industry has not participated in promoting this harm reduction protocol for helping people to reduce their drinking. Ms. Williamson is aware that most of that responsibility has fallen on the C Three Foundation.There are several alcohol addiction treatment options, including TSM. It is reasonable to offer patients choices and it is reasonable to make recomendations based on the individual situations of individual patients.People deserve equal access to treatment for alcohol misuse. Ms. Williamson and actress Claudia Christian have created the C Three Foundation as a program to act as a bridge between healthcare providers and people interested in medication for alcohol treatment so they can work on overcoming alcoholism.While naltrexone is the main medication used in The Sinclair Method, the C Three Foundation has no connection to the manufacturers of Naltrexone. While naltrexone, the opiate blocker, plays an important part in treating alcohol abuse, there is more to TSM than just taking a pill every day.As a tax exempt organization that is structured as a charity, the C Three Foundation provides information on the science of TSM and it provides an advanced treatment locator to help prospective patients to find healthcare providers experienced with TSM.Please visit Jenny Williamson at https://cthreefoundation.org/Learn more at our website https://drleeds.com and our podcast website, https://therehab.com.

Dr. Miller has determined that one category of meth user is a person who goes through life without adequate energy to complete tasks related to their activities of daily living. They found that self-treating their lack of energy with meth made it possible to get through the day. He identifies these patients using a line of questioning that proposes hypothetical situations that elicit a particular response.The other major category of meth user is the person who has attention deficit disorder. He describes these patients as being angry and short-tempered, but often regretful and remorseful of their actions.Dr. Miller describes these patients as being "dual diagnosed." The addiction is one diagnosis, and the underlying mental health issue is the other diagnosis. He complains that many addiction specialists only attempt to treat the addiction without giving proper attention to the condition that drives the addiction.Incredibly, Dr. Miller claims a very high success rate in treating patients for meth addiction. He states that within a short period of time, cravings subside. The meth addict simply no longer needs meth to get through the day. His methods of meth addiction treatment are unique and highly effective.

Today we have a special episode of the podcast, where I discuss the film “Two Cents From a Pariah” with the lead actor, Jeffrey Grover, and lead actress Cortney Palm, as well as Chris Carson Emmons, the writer and director of the film. Jeffrey Grover can be seen in such films as “Dark Waters,” “Take Shelter,” “I Feel Pretty,” “Miles Ahead,” and more. Cortney Palm is best known for her role in the horror comedy “Zombeavers,” having also appeared in “Sushi Girl” and “Death House,” among many others.The film we discuss together here deals with many important and difficult topics, including addiction.The film is available to rent on Amazon here - https://amzn.to/2SRLf83These are the film’s social media pages where you can view the trailer and receive updates-Instagram: @twocentsfilmFacebook: Two cents Facebook