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Week of August 31, 2006 |
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THIS WEEK'S SHOW: SATURDAY, September 2,
2006
MARY JANE
Gee, Mom and Dad! It's only marijuana!!
Mary Jane is slang for our old friend, marijuana. With a name like your
kid sister's, one would think there must not be any problem here. Many
consider marijuana to be a soft-core drug which in some circles comes
close to being socially acceptable, even though it is illegal. Reality
is that the compulsive, repetitive use of marijuana alone can be just as
debilitating as IV heroin in terms of its destructive affect on an
addict.
Marijuana Anonymous is
a great resource for those who wonder about the marijuana addiction
question. It gives us a very different perspective from those who
question whether marijuana is a problem drug, or whether it is possible
to get addicted to a drug that is allegedly without a defined withdrawal
syndrome.
From the
Marijuana Anonymous website:
"Who is a marijuana addict?":
""We who are marijuana addicts know the answer to this question.
Marijuana controls our lives! We lose interest in all else; our dreams
go up in smoke. Ours is a progressive illness often leading us to
addictions to other drugs, including alcohol. Our lives, our thinking,
and our desires center around marijuana---scoring it, dealing it, and
finding ways to stay high."
Marijuana is a gateway drug. Only alcohol surpasses marijuana as being
the most common drug of first use by those who will eventually become
hard-core addicts. From early first use of marijuana, many individuals
with addictive genes and addictive tendencies will soon be introduced to
other drugs which may be more severe and harsh in their effects.
It also is commonly used in a poly-addiction mode along with other
substances. Marijuana is ubiquitous among poly-addicts. Many addicts
learn to skillfully (or not so skillfully) mix many different classes of
drugs together simultaneously including alcohol, opiates, stimulants,
and hallucinogens as part of a "drug soup" mixture. Such poly-drug use
balances the positive and negative effects of specific drugs.
We must not be fooled into thinking marijuana is safe, or that it is a
merely a soft-core drug that may be proclaimed harmless. It is possible
that marijuana may not necessarily be harmful to all people who use it,
and that there may be such a valid concept as classifying marijuana use
into "use, abuse, and addiction". But without question, for those
individuals with addiction genes and compulsive tendencies, marijuana is
an enemy to be feared no differently than heroin or methamphetamine.
This week we will examine the myths and fictions surrounding marijuana.
We will discuss the facts and statistics, and we'll hear stories from
marijuana addicts who have learned first hand that marijuana addiction
is just as destructive as any other drug of abuse.
Don't miss this exciting and highly informative show! Live!! This
Saturday night, September 2nd, 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!!
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STRAIGHT TALK FROM THE
DOC by Dr Steve
Getting Help for Outside Issues
Some old-guard AA’s will tell their sponsees that any type of
potentially addictive drugs and psych meds are unacceptable in
sobriety. These onerous missives specifically include opiate
pain medications, but also include such non-habit forming
medications as the anti-depressants. Here, I am talking about
the SSRI’s and related drugs; such as Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin,
and the like.
“Drugs and medications”, these hard-core sponsors will say, “are
merely a crutch, and that what the AA or NA really needs is to
do the steps, listen to their sponsor, and find a solid
connection with the God of their understanding.”
I have no quibble with the importance of doing the steps,
listening to my sponsor (except in this case!!), and connecting
with my higher power. I do have a HUGE quibble with sponsors’
prohibiting the use of valuable medications which in reality may
be the ONE very essential thing missing in the care of many
dual-diagnosis patients.
Dual
diagnosis refers to the combination of the disease of addiction,
along with a co-existing psychiatric or emotional disorder.
Chronic pain conditions also qualify. An example would be
endogenous depression plus methamphetamine addiction; this
particular combination is extremely common. There are many
others.
In turn, most all dual-diagnosis patients become active in their
addiction simply because they are self-medicating their
heretofore undiagnosed depression, anxiety disorder, or chronic
pain with addictive drugs. Previously, they were hurting and in
pain from their undiagnosed and untreated emotional or psych
disorder. It is intuitive and understandable that drugs like
alcohol or speed would ease the symptoms of depression.
Predictably, however, the addiction takes over, and it always
prevails in the end.
In summary, for many addicts and alcoholics who wish to stay
clean and sober, adjunctive medications are crucial to that end:
to stay clean and sober. My advice to any and all addicts with
dual diagnosis issues is to see an addictionologist, or, a
primary care physician who is knowledgeable about the disease of
addiction. The skillful use of anti-depressants, anti-seizure
medications (such as neuronin or Topamax), and addiction
adjuncts like Campral or Antabuse may be essential- and crucial-
to ongoing sobriety.
My advice: Don’t listen to you sponsor IF he tells you not to
take your prescribed dual-diagnosis medications. He is doing you
a great disservice.
This is Dr Steve, giving it to you straight!!
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3.
ART OF RECOVERY EXPO
NEXT MONTH IN PHOENIX- SEPTEMBER 16TH
Join Bob and Dr Steve at Phoenix Convention Center for
National Recovery Month Celebration
Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006 at the Phoenix Civic Plaza, Hall E
Once again this year, Recovery Radio will be broadcasting
"live" from the halls of the Phoenix Convention Center during
the Art of Recovery Expo 2006. The excitement takes place next
month on Saturday, September 16th at the Phoenix Convention
Center. This celebration of recovery and healthy living is
aimed at families and is free to attendees. Over 100
exhibitors will be there. The featured keynote speaker this
year is Bill Moyers, Executive VP of Government Relations at
Hazelden.
Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to celebrate the joys of
recovery with Bob and Dr Steve at the Art of Recovery Expo
2006!! And...be sure to plan now to attend the inaugural "Art
of Recovery Expo- Orange County 2007", which will be held on
Saturday, June 9, 2007 at the Anaheim Convention Center!! More
on this exciting recovery community and family event will be
published here as planning continues.
Remember....RECOVERY WORKS!!
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4.
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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5.
THE
SILENT TREATMENT PROJECT- IN YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER
The
“silent treatment” is what we do when we shift our eyes and our attention
away from something we wish to avoid or pretend doesn't exist. It is
extremely passive-aggressive. This is historically how America has chosen
to deal with its #1 public health problem: Addiction.
"Silent Treatment" is also
the name of a vibrant and ambitious upcoming national public awareness
initiative and information campaign, which will roll out on August 2nd. It
will bring the subject of addiction out into the open, and into the
forefront- as it should be. Addiction affects fully 60% of our nation,
either directly (about 10%) or indirectly, the latter by its impact on
those surrounding and deeply affected by the active addict.
Our guests on our show July 29th were Jane McDonnell and Thom Forbes, both
key participants in The Silent Treatment initiative. The intent of the
Silent Treatment campaign is to drive readers to their website, where
there exists a huge repository of information and resources for dealing
with Addictions. The Recovery Radio Show is proud to have been chosen from
a large field of existing recovery-oriented radio shows nationwide to
participate in the Silent Treatment process. Our podcast is available on
the Silent Treatment website on their audio content and recovery radio
section.
This series will premier on August 2nd, being distributed nationwide by
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Their effort operates under a
grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The intent is to bring
attention to the issue and to put pressure on America to change its way of
looking at Addiction. The hope is to change how we view addiction; from
the historical and inaccurate view as a moral lapse/lifestyle choice, to
the much more correct medical disease model and the huge #1 public health
problem that it really is.
The planning for this effort began over a year ago and is timed to
coincide with National Recovery Month, which is September.
Recovery Radio strongly recommends to our listeners and readers that
they take a look at The Silent
Treatment website. There is much great information and resources
there to help not only the recovering addict with solidifying one's own
recovery, but for helping a loved one find it, as well. The whole point of
The Silent Treatment project is to bash stigma over alcoholism and
addiction, and to provide the tools and resources necessary to find
recovery.
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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. Office Phone:
949.273.8490
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HAVE A QUESTION?
Bob and Dr Steve are always available to take your questions- or
accept your comments and suggestions. We're not only available
on-air on Saturday nights, but you can contact us ANYTIME,
either by calling us at the office, or by contacting us via
e-mail.
Office Phone:
949.273.8490 Email:
info@recoveryradioshow.com
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Recovery Radio Show is organized as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit
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or by going to the "DONATE" button on our website on the
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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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