1. THIS WEEK'S SHOW: SATURDAY, September 16, 2006

Art of Recovery Expo- Phoenix
Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006 at the Phoenix Civic Plaza, Hall E
Bob and Dr Steve "On the Road" Special

This week we are "hitting the road" and venturing off to Phoenix, AZ where we will broadcast "LIVE" once again from our Phoenix affiliate station, 1100 AM KFNX.

We will be attending the 2nd Annual Art of Recovery Expo at the Phoenix Civic Center beginning at 10A local time and continuing all day until 5PM. Our regular broadcast will take place as usual that evening from 6 - 8P Pacific Time. Last year was our first year doing this; we plan to do it every year from here forward.

The Art of Recovery Expo is a unique celebration of recovery that is free to attendees. There is nothing else like this event anywhere else in the country that we are aware of. It held in a festive environment that welcomes families; it is wonderful.

William C. Moyers
Vice President of
External Affairs for
the Hazelden Foundation

Featured speaker this year is Bill Moyer, Executive VP of External Affairs and Government Relations for Hazelden. Cirque du Monde (think "Cirque- de Soleil") will be there "live" to entertain the audience. Over 100 exhibitors will share with the public much great information and resources about recovery: Recovery from all sorts of addictions, and from every angle imaginable. This informative and entertaining event was created and is produced by Bill and Barbara Brown, publishers of the monthly "good news" newspaper, Arizona Together. Arizona Together is the voice of recovery for all of Arizona.

In addition to exhibitors and booths, there will workshops on a wide variety of topics running all day long. Recovery Radio's sponsor, TRIAD Treatment Center, will also be there and will have a booth. Our own Dr Steve will be presenting a workshop on behalf of TRIAD at 12:15P entitled "Jump Start Into Recovery". It will provide an overview of the exciting topic of brain restoration therapies like NTR™ and PROMETA™, and how these promising new approaches to treatment of the medical aspects of addiction fits into the overall strategy for addiction treatment.

This week on our show we will report on what happened all day long at the Art of Recovery Expo. We'll provide you an insider's look at cutting edge developments in addiction treatment and recovery lifestyles. We may even bring a few guests from the Art of Recovery Expo into the studio and interview them with you and for you. And as always, we will take your questions on ANYTHING dealing with drug, alcohol, and behavioral addictions- and in particular, about Recovery.

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.

And finally, don't miss our exciting and highly informative show! Live!! This Saturday night, September 16th, 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 be different this week only. Listen for it during the broadcast- and then call in with your questions and comments. Remember….. RECOVERY WORKS!!

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There are times when addictive medications are the best- or only- option for certain medical conditions. Examples are opiate narcotic drugs for certain pain issues (Vicodin, Percocet, others), or, stimulants for ADHD (Ritalin, Adderal, others). Many of these drugs are quite effective- and safe- when used as directed and strictly for the condition being treated.

Taking these types of drugs is particularly tricky and dangerous for those of us in recovery. Vicodin prescribed unwittingly by an unknowing physician to an alcoholic or addict in recovery, even if for a legitimate reason, is a common story of the beginning of a relapse. In fact, Vicodin is arguably the most common prescription leading to relapse among all addicts in recovery. One need only attend a handful of 12-Step meetings before hearing such a story from a relapser who is struggling to get back into solid recovery. I have heard this story so many times I cannot count them all.

What to do when you are in recovery, and faced with the need to take an addictive medication??

First of all- BE HONEST with you physician! Tell him or her upfront that you are in recovery. Ask for non-addictive alternatives in any and all circumstances. Oftentimes there are very good alternatives, perhaps even better.

You may also wish to seek a trained addictionologist as your primary physician, or, as a consulting specialist. An additionologist is a physician whose primary specialty may be family practice, internal medicine, psychiatry, or just about any other specialty. In addition, he or she will have taken the courses necessary to prepare for the certifying examination in addition medicine, offered by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Addictionlogists are trained to manage the overall medical needs of the addict, including exactly the subject we are discussing here. They will consider all decent alternatives to using addictive medication. If something like Vicodin or Adderall is necessary, they will suggest the correct dosing as well as parameters for discontinuing such medications as the earliest possible juncture.

Above all else, it is best that any actual medications be controlled by a trusted friend or family member. Our sponsor is a great choice if there is not a family member or other person in close physical proximity. This way, we are kept “honest” in how we take our medication. This is especially critical for medications that are given on an “as-needed” basis, such as pain medications for pain. Pain is very subjective; if we ever find ourselves in this position- of being given a prescription for narcotic pain medication- we MUST be honest with ourselves in terms of whether our pain is real, or magnified.

This is Dr Steve, giving it to you straight!!

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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 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 A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
The Recovery Radio Show is organized as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit public benefit corporation under the IRS tax code: Our Mission is to provide education about addiction to our fellow human beings, and to do what we can to allow those still suffering to get into recovery. If you, or your company, would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the RRS, you may do so with our profound thanks and appreciation by clicking on the link above, or by going to the "DONATE" button on our website on the HOME page. Or, you may call our office at 949.273.8490 M-F between the hours of 8A - 5P.

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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