1. THIS WEEK'S SHOW- DUAL DX IS SELF-MEDICATION OF     UNDIAGNOSED PSYCH DISORDERS  2. TRIAD TREATMENT CENTER IS OUR NEW SPONSOR 3. STRAIGHT TALK FROM THE DOC: NTR(TM) AND RECOVERY 4. THOUGHT FOR RECOVERY- DO YOU LIKE THE WAY I LOOK?     NOT!!! 5. SECRET LIVES OF WOMEN: FEMALE ALCOHOL, METH,     SEX ADDICTS NEEDED FOR TV DOCUMENTARY SHOW 6. MARKETING AND SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES     WITH RECOVERY RADIO 7. ARCHIVES- LISTEN TO PAST SHOWS 8. RECOVERY RADIO A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORG

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1. THIS WEEK'S SHOW: SATURDAY, July 1st, 2006
    Summer Hijinx

DUAL DIAGNOSIS: SELF-MEDICATION OF UNTREATED CO-OCCURING PSYCH DISORDERS

"Dual Diagnosis" is a term used to describe the combination of a mental or emotional disorder in addition to the disease of addiction. For instance: The combination of bipolar affective disorder plus methamphetamine addiction. Or, ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) plus cocaine addiction. Both of these are commonly seen co-occurring disorders. There are many others.

Why is the concept of Dual Diagnosis so important? Why do treatment providers focus on finding a second co-occurring disorder when they consider a rehab and recovery prescription for any particular addict?

The reason is that having two simultaneous symbiotic conditions complicates the approach to treatment- not just a little, but a lot. In fact, treatment for dual diagnoses is exponentially more complex than for "simple addiction". The underlying mental or emotional problem MUST be adequately controlled in and of itself in order for recovery from drugs and alcohol to even have a chance of being successful.

The reason that dual diagnoses mix together in the first place is intuitive. In simple terms, addiction to a drug or alcohol represents self-medication for the underlying disorder. Persons with an undiagnosed, untreated mental or emotional disorder may blunder happenstance into a drug that just happens to help their underlying problem. Then, they are off and running if they have addictive genes and addictive tendencies as well.

A person with undiagnosed endogenous depression may be introduced to meth by a friend at a party. He or she finds immediately that her depression is suddenly lifted, and for days; not just a couple hours. It is an apparent miracle!! Once this occurs, she will naturally and understandably self-medicate with that new drug, but will do so with excess and compulsively to the point of ruin.

Another example is bipolar affective disorder plus cocaine addiction. Cocaine resolves the depression part of bipolar disorder. Yet another example is the combination of severe anxiety disorder plus chronic alcoholism. Anyone with anxiety knows that an alcoholic drink will immediately and predictably calm down even the worst and deepest cases of "nerves" and will make things bearable. Those who suffer from true anxiety know that the sensation of severe anxiety can be absolutely horrible. These individuals who suffer from severe anxiety disorder are set-ups for manifesting chronic alcoholism or benzidiazepine addiction (Valium, Xanax, others).

Unfortunately, dually-diagnosed addicts are unable to control their self-medicating drug use. Therein lies the problem.

The approach to treatment of dual diagnoses is twofold: 1) Identify with certainty any underlying emotional or psychiatric disorder that may exist, and 2) Treat that co-occurring disorder with non-addictive medications and other techniques such as therapy, self-hypnosis, acupuncture, etc. BEFORE and SIMULTANEOUSLY with rehab treatment for the drug addiction.

Addicts suffering dual diagnoses are well-advised to seek a rehab facility that specializes in the treatment of dual diagnosis. Increasingly, drug and alcohol treatment centers are focusing on this important issue, and adding the staff and resources necessary to effectively address dual diagnosis.

This Saturday we will discuss Dual Diagnoses, the most common combinations seen, and the nuances of dealing with them.

Don’t miss this exciting and highly informative show! Live!! This Saturday night, July 1st, 6 - 8P Pacific Time on 99.5 FM KKLA Los Angeles in Phoenix, AZ 1100AM KFNX…and…streaming on the web. Our show call-in number is 888/995-5552 for your questions and comments. Remember….. RECOVERY WORKS!!

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.
 

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 Recovery can use to enhance their own Recovery. We reprint this week's Thought for Recovery here:

Eating Disorders: "Do you like the Way I Look???" ...NOT!!!

At least 85% of the women in America are on a diet. And this is not the first diet they've tried. For many, life has been on one long, continual diet- or series of gains and losses.

It doesn't much matter whether the reason for this diet roller coaster is compulsive overeating, binging, purging, exercising, shopping, starving, anorexia, bulimia, or any combination of these behaviors. You know when you are in trouble. You know when you hide your eating; or if you lie to others about it. If all you think about is eating or not eating, you've got a problem.

But here's the deal: It’s not about being fat, average or skinny!!

Let's make it clear, It is not the food. It is not about calories or fat grams, or good and bad food. It's all about control. It's about feeling out of control and trying to make other people notice and love you. It's like filling up an endless hole, right there inside of us. And it's no wonder we do it with food. Food equals love for many of us. It is still the message of love for many of us.

We know that eating can take away that awful, almost constant feeling of aloneness. There is something missing in our life and we need to find it. Food seems to provide the road map to that missing part, so we take it again and again, only to reach the same dead end. Every day is a struggle. No one else seems to understand. and nobody even cares!

We are drunk on our own brain chemicals!!

What a dilemma! Once we get started on this road to destruction, it seems like there is no turning back. Our own brain reacts to our obsessive and compulsive behavior, flooding our system with a rush of intoxicating neurochemicals. For a moment we feel better, we feel in control again. But, our thinking remains impaired. Food and compulsive eating behaviors work for a little while. Until they don't work at all, anymore.

Getting Help

It is at this point we must reach out for help. We ourselves are the only ones who can take the first step. We have to admit that our life is in a mess, despite all of our best efforts to control it. And we need help. We can't do it alone.

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:

• a "functional female alcoholic"

• a female methamphetamine addict

• a female sex addict.

The letter I received from “The Secret Lives of Women” producer follows:
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6.  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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RECOVERY RADIO A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
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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