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Week of June 23, 2006 |
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are dedicated to taking the hope of RECOVERY to you, your
family, and to all persons afflicted with- or affected by - THE
DISEASE OF ADDICTION. There IS a better way....
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THIS WEEK'S SHOW: SATURDAY, June 24th,
2006
Summer Hijinx
EATING DISORDERS- A Very Special form of
Compulsive Behavior
Eating Disorders span the gamut from overeating to under-eating, and
forms in-between. The most common types are Anorexia, Bulimia,
Compulsive Overeating and Compulsive Exercising.
Compulsive Overeating usually results in obesity. In this variety of
eating disorder, food is used to deal with negative or uncomfortable
emotions, eating becomes a way to cope and food essentially becomes the
"drug of choice" and resulting in weight gain, lost relationships, poor
self-esteem and other negative consequences of using this behavior as a
coping mechanism.
Last week we focused on the nature of Food Addiction and Compulsive
Overeating with our guests Pam M and Terry K of Food Addicts in Recovery
Anonymous (FA). 12-Step recovery organizations such as FA as well as
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) are a wonderful and effective way to address
food addiction and Compulsive Overeating.
Anorexia and Bulimia are separate disorders that encompass both
addiction (and all the compulsive behaviors that surround the disease of
addiction), plus deeply-ingrained psychological issues that focus on
self abuse, negative self image, inability to manage anxiety and
distorted body image. For example, no matter how perfectly-proportioned
or thin the anorexic or bulimic person may be, she still looks in the
mirror and sees a fat, disgusting and distorted self-image. No amount of
weight loss is enough to satisfy this compulsion, especially once the
physiological (Starvation mode) ramifications of this disease take
charge.
Anorexia implies self-starvation or simply not eating. It is frequently
accompanied by compulsive exercising, meticulous calorie-counting,
painstaking meal avoidance, and the like. Bulimia is "purging"; getting
rid of unwanted calories in an act of disgustful eructation of consumed
food or through hours upon hours of compulsive exercising. Often a
bulimic will binge on huge quantities of food, only to immediately head
for the bathroom to induce vomiting before the food can be absorbed and
assimilated. Laxative and cathartic abuse is also a manifestation of
bulimic behavior.
Over-eating, starving, binging, purging, laxative/cathartic abuse and
over-exercising may all result in serious medical consequences such as
electrolyte imbalances (especially potassium) which ultimately leads to
immediate heart failure, ruptured esophagus, acid reflux esophogitis,
dental decay, malnutrition, Osteoporosis and infertility.
This week we will be joined by Michele
Bennett, founder and executive director of " It is What it Is Foundation"
located in San Diego. Michele is in recovery not only for her eating
disorder, but from drugs and alcohol, as well. Her foundation seeks to
bring the hope of recovery to anyone who is struggling with an eating
disorder or struggling to care for someone who has an eating disorder
and issues of self-image.
She is careful to clarify that that her foundation does not supplant
conventional treatment programs for eating disorders, nor do they
substitute for the strictly medical monitoring and psychotherapeutic
issues that are the core of eating disorder treatment.
"Our aim at the IIWII Foundation is to halt the "revolving door"
syndrome often seen with eating disorder treatment centers and to reduce
the high relapse rates associated with current eating disorder programs
by offering our own form of extra support, especially valuable during
times of transition from one level of treatment to another."
Michele will share her vision of bringing the hope of recovery from
eating disorders to all who want and need it.
Don’t miss this exciting and highly informative show! Live!! This
Saturday night, June 24th 6 - 8P Pacific Time on 99.5 FM KKLA Los
Angeles and 10 other cities…and…streaming on the web. Our show call-in
number is 888/995-5552 for your questions and comments. Remember…..
RECOVERY WORKS!!
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TRIAD TREATMENT CENTER IS OUR NEW SPONSOR
 Recovery
Radio Show welcomes
TRIAD Treatment Center as our new anchor sponsor!!
TRIAD, located in a convenient office location near John Wayne
Airport in Orange County, CA provides addicts with the exclusive
and proprietary NeuroTransmitter Restoration System (NTR™). NTR™
is an office-based outpatient medical treatment process that
gives the newly-recovering addict a jump-start into Recovery.
In coming weeks TRIAD will sponsor the hourly “TRIAD Corner” on
the Recovery Radio Show. During this informative segment, Bob
and Dr Steve will provide fascinating updates and cutting-edge
tips about medical approaches to the treatment of addiction. We
will interview doctors, addictionologists, patients, drug
counselors, scientists, and lots of other knowledgeable and
entertaining guests- all to help YOU and your family to better
understand recovery from addictions.
NTR™ is a 10
day series of specially-developed and naturally-occurring
intravenous amino acid infusions which helps the drug-damaged
brain to heal much more quickly than normal upon cessation of
drug use, including alcohol.
 NTR™
does the following:
- markedly reduces or even eliminates drug cravings
- speeds up the return of normal brain function (‘clears the
brain”; lucid thought processes)
- significantly eases the discomfort of the “detox” phase of
drug and alcohol treatment
All three benefits of NTR™ are HUGE and cannot be overstated. In
a word, NTR™ is revolutionary and will change the very approach
to treatment of addiction from here forward. It is not fluff. It
is real.
Prior to NTR™, there were no truly effective medical approaches
to the treatment of drug addiction. NTR™ heals the addict’s
brain at the cellular and molecular level. The best we had for
addiction treatment prior to NTR™was AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)
and other 12-Step groups, which addressed only the emotional and
spiritual components of addiction.
There is no cure for drug addiction. There is only lasting
remission, and only IF the addict addresses all three components
of the disease of addiction. Adding the NTR™ treatment process
at the "front end" and including it in a blended three-prong
approach (medical, emotional, spiritual) greatly improves the
likelihood of ongoing recovery. This blended approach may
include formal rehab treatment as well, and should always
include ongoing participation in a 12-Step group and getting a
sponsor and using him/her. NTR™ is best viewed as a powerful
medical tool that provides the addict with a “jump start into
recovery”.
We know that addiction is a disease, not a moral lapse or
lifestyle choice. It is a three-part disease which includes
Medical, Emotional, and Spiritual components. All three elements
of the disease MUST be addressed concomitantly in order to
expect durable, lasting remission in Recovery.
NTR™ is the missing link in the recovery puzzle. For once, the
addict can now address all three elements of the disease of
addiction. NTR™ is step one. Rehab and 12-Step participation
closely follows; the latter (12-Steps and sponsor) should
continue for life.
The NTR™ experience at
TRIAD Treatment Center is tailored to the individual addict.
It is administered by specially trained clinicians in a
comfortable outpatient clinic setting, under the supervision of
Medical Director Dr. Neil Neimark. Dr. Neimark is a
board-certified family practitioner with a strong background and
understanding of both addiction disease, as well as medical
approaches to treating it.
Interested parties may visit the
TRIAD website (under
construction) for more information, or may call the TRIAD office
to schedule a consultation appointment at the numbers listed
below.
TRIAD is located at:
Triad Treatment Center
19742 MacArthur Blvd., Ste. 110
Irvine CA 92612.
Phone: 877.664.3550 (Toll Free) or 949.747.1978.
Website:
www.tendaydetox.com
Email:
info@tendaydetox.com
Note: Dr Steve has an interest in TTC and assists them in
providing this valuable service to its clients.
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STRAIGHT TALK FROM THE
DOC by Dr Steve
Re-Setting
Brain Receptors
 Addiction is
a complex disease with three components: Medical (or
physiological), Emotional, and Spiritual. All three elements
must be addressed in order for recovery to happen.
At the cellular level of the brain, addiction leads to altered
brain synapses and damaged neurotransmitter receptors. Over
time, the continual presence of drugs including alcohol causes
the receptors in the brain’s pleasure center to change, to
adapt. This leads to the phenomenon of “tolerance” or
physiologic drug addiction.
When the drug is removed from the equation, the brain goes
haywire, leading to chaotic signaling, abnormal cognition or
thinking, and general instability of the brain processes.
The biggest initial problem for all addicts seeking recovery is
dealing with the detoxification phase, removing the drug from
the equation and the system. This process experienced without
medical intervention is called going “cold turkey”. It is NOT
pleasant. In fact, the unpleasant detox alone keeps many addicts
from even proceeding into recovery.
So-called “Medical Detox” uses various medications to ease the
detox process, and typically takes days to weeks to accomplish.
It take months for full normalization to occur, however; and
some damage may remain in the end.
In recent years dramatic new approaches to dealing with the
brain’s healing in context of addiction recovery have been
developed. The key concept here is to provide the brain the help
it needs to more quickly heal, or, return to normal functioning
once drugs are removed from the system.
NeuroTransmitter
Restoration, or NTR™, is one of the most exciting and
promising new approaches to doing this. NTR™ uses a ten
day schedule of Intravenous naturally-occurring amino acids to
bath the brain tissues, and to do just that. NTR's™
specially derived formulations provide a nutrient environment in
the brain which causes brain cells to shift into the so-called
“repair phase” of cell function. NTR™ speeds up the
process of normalization to about 10 days…instead of months. It
also markedly decreased drug cravings, allows the brain to think
more clearly and normally MUCH more quickly, and significantly
eases the discomfort of the withdrawal or detox phase.
My opinion: If I had to do it over again (and thank God I
don’t!!) I would definitely consider NTR™ as my first step
for getting into Recovery. More next week.
This is Dr Steve, giving it to you Straight!!
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4. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY- by BOB MUNCK
 Each week
on our show this past year, Bob has shares his "Thought for
Recovery", a unique personal reflection meant to inspire those
of us in Recovery. This is from a man with 15 years of
personal sobriety, and with many years of recovery leadership.
He has seen and heard it all. He has sponsored hundreds of men
during that time. Bob's "Thoughts" will focus on pearls of
wisdom that all alcoholics and addicts in Recovey can use to
enhance their own Recovery. We reprint this week's Thought for
Recovery here:
Is There Honesty in YOUR Recovery??
Definition of the Word: honest
1. Being in the habit of telling the truth
2. To be free from any intent to deceive or impress others
3. Free in expressing one's true feelings and opinions, eg, to
appreciate your honest friends who tell you what you need to
hear and not what you want to hear
 When
active in our ADDICTIONS, most of us learned about Pretense
and Self-Deceit, Denial, Silence, And Isolation.
Now that we are in Recovery, we must learn self-awareness in
telling the Truth. We start by admitting to ourselves that we
can not fight our addictions by being all alone and keeping
things a Secret.
If we are not honest; our self-deceit will block us from ever
finding personal change and growth. Only honesty can bring
change within us. Recovery begins as we face our failures, our
wrong-doing, and our self-destructive choices.
Honesty is the foundation of everything else we do in
recovery. It is the unavoidable first step toward change,
growth, accountability, healing, trust and love. Recovery
begins as we learn to speak the truth about ourselves, so that
we can embrace reality and begin to heal.
Honesty does not mean brutally telling others how they "make
us feel." It doesn't mean brutally bashing ourselves either.
Honesty is not brutal.
The honesty we learn in recovery allows us to be respectful,
empathic and compassionate- both with ourselves as well as
with others.
I pray to God may I learn and train myself to be more honest
with You and everyone that You put in my life.
Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change, the courage to change the things I can, and the
wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at
a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; taking,
as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is; not as I would have
it;
trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to
your will; so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and
supremely happy with You forever in the next.
AMEN
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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5.
WOMEN NEEDED TO SHARE THEIR STORY ON
CABLE TV PROGRAM “SECRET LIVES OF WOMEN”
TV Show seeks “functioning” female addicts for on-air
documentary series
(alcohol, meth, sex)
 Women’s
Entertainment Network (WE) is a cable television channel
whose focus is on women: their lives, their interests, their
jobs, their hobbies, their joys, their sorrows, their
problems- EVERYTHING and anything that appeals to the female
gender.
I recently received a phone call from one of the producers of
the WE show “Secret
Lives of Women”, which is in its second season and airs on
Tuesday evenings at 10:30P in those cable system areas that
carry WE. They are looking for 3 women who might be willing to
be interviewed for an episode of this “real-life” documentary
series (NOT “reality TV”!!). The show chronicles the actual
lives of women in various situations and who are facing
various significant or unusual challenges, “demons”, or other
special issues of concern.
They would like to find three women who would be interested in
sharing their lives as being:
The letter I received from “The
Secret Lives of Women” producer follows:
READ MORE >>>
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MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES
WITH RECOVERY RADIO
Recovery Radio Seeks
Show Sponsors
 The
Recovery Radio Show is more that just a radio show.
We are a comprehensive set of resources for addicts and their
families. Our uniqueness is that each week we reach hundreds of
thousands of addicts and their families who are still
suffering…over 500,000 people each week. We do this in many
ways, the most obvious of which is over the airwaves every
Saturday night in Los Angeles and 10 other cities,
coast-to-coast.
In addition, we will soon be publishing “California Together”,
a monthly newspaper targeted at the recovery community
throughout Southern California. We will be publishing this in
partnership with Bill and Barbara Brown, publishers of “Arizona
Together”, which periodical has been meeting the needs of
the Arizona recovery community for over 15 years. The two will
be sister publications.
We maintain one of the most popular “recovery radio” websites in
the world! Both Google and Yahoo have rated ours to be #4, and
this after only 6 months of existence! That is phenomenal, and
testimony to the fact that we are “doing something right!” Our
weekly e-newsletter, the FLASH! reaches many people each week as
well, with timely updates on what is happening with Recovery
Radio and the recovery world in general.
Future projects include an “800 HELPLINE”, the HOW Program USA
“recovery scholarships”, Fourth Step Workshops with Bob and Dr
Steve, and “The Art of Recovery- Southern California” recovery
community annual convention.
What does this all mean? It means that those organizations whose
business is related to recovery and/or recovery products have a
unique opportunity to engage- at the ground-floor level- in an
extremely effective marketing alliance with The Recovery Radio
Show.
Ours is a highly-targeted audience. We reach over 500,000 people
each week (conservative estimate). Approximately 60% of our
callers are family members or loved ones of an alcoholic or
addict who NEEDS RECOVERY. They are looking for solutions to get
their loved on into recovery. About 30% of our callers are from
addicts or alcoholics who are IN RECOVERY, and want and need
recovery-oriented products.
More so, ALL of our listeners are learning more about a
societal problem that in reality affects essentially every
single person in this nation. Addiction is by far the #1 public
health problem in the nation today, costing our society over $4
Billion/year. It is long overdue that our nation accepts
addiction for the medical disease that it is. We are doing our
part to effect that change.
If you are with a business or organization that might benefit
from a marketing relationship with Recovery Radio, please
contact us. We will be happy to discuss the many ways that you
can benefit from joining our team…and at the same time help AND
benefit from our growing fan and listener base.
CONTACT US
if you would like to explore sponsorship or marketing
opportunities with Recovery Radio Show. Toll-Free:
866.334.0471., ext. 102 (Bob), or ext. 111 (Dr Steve).
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That's it for
this week....Join us this Saturday Night, won't you?????.....6-8
Pacific Time...on-air, or on the web.
Yours very truly, and in sobriety,
Dr Steve, Bob, and the Recovery Radio Crew
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