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Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Jeff Simone

21 episodes

8 months ago

There’s stigma around people with addictions, there’s more stigma around women with addictions, and there’s maybe none more stigmatized than pregnant women with addictions. Today’s episode is all about pregnant women with opioid use disorders and some of the considerations for that particular group. One thing that is a huge liability for an addicted mom raising a child is the nonstop gossip and judgement that they have to deal with it. Culturally no one is as judged as an an addicted mother...

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There’s stigma around people with addictions, there’s more stigma around women with addictions, and there’s maybe none more stigmatized than pregnant women with addictions. Today’s episode is all about pregnant women with opioid use disorders and some of the considerations for that particular group. One thing that is a huge liability for an addicted mom raising a child is the nonstop gossip and judgement that they have to deal with it. Culturally no one is as judged as an an addicted mother...

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Episodes (20/21)

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Treating OUD During Pregnancy

There’s stigma around people with addictions, there’s more stigma around women with addictions, and there’s maybe none more stigmatized than pregnant women with addictions. Today’s episode is all about pregnant women with opioid use disorders and some of the considerations for that particular group. One thing that is a huge liability for an addicted mom raising a child is the nonstop gossip and judgement that they have to deal with it. Culturally no one is as judged as an an addicted mother...

4 years ago

25 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Words Matter : Reviewing the NIDA's new recommendations on language for SUD's.

Words matter. There’s no question about that – they’re a big driving force of stigma, and it’s always a heated debate when it comes to semantics with these touchy areas. One of the many challenges is that while the healthcare guidelines move away from words like 'addict,' many popular 12-step fellowships have fully embedded that word into their culture, and a lot people choose to use it as a point of personal pride. But despite of this, in recent years the culture has been shifting ...

4 years ago

24 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

John & Jude Trang: Insights from Parents Who Lost a Child to Overdose

Interview episode #7 is with John and Jude Trang - parents who lost their youngest child, John Leif, to a heroin overdose in 2014 at age 25. Today John is an independent pharmaceutical researcher and consultant and Jude is a full-time advocate for addiction recovery treatment and author of Opiate Nation : A Memoir of Love, Loss & Acceptance. This was an incredibly powerful episode and a must-watch for anyone who has lost a loved one to addiction or is currently struggling to know how be...

4 years ago

1 hour 18 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Surviving Opioids Podcast: Show Overview

What to expect on Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic Podcast - your one stop shop for everything opioids, addiction, and recovery. If you enjoy the show, share it, leave a review, and keep the conversation going. Connect on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or check out the website. Enjoy the show!

4 years ago

1 minute

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Pay to Play? California Discusses Paying People to Stay Sober

A story came out last week about California trying to become the first state to incentivize people financially to stay sober. Story here Most people who complete the treatment without any positive urine tests during a set period of time will get a few hundred dollars put on a gift card. The governor calls it “contingency management,” and he wants it to be paid through Medicaid. The bill already made it through the democratic-lead senate without opposition, and now it’s pending in the assembl...

4 years ago

18 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Introduction to Amino Acid Supplementation for Opioid Addiction

Folks in early recovery don’t necessarily lack the discipline to make and stick to changes, but they usually lack the guidance and direction, and it's hard today with so much information available, all of which will at some point contradict something else you’ve heard. One of my favorite topics to discuss involves nutritional deficiencies and supplementation, which is the topic for episode 16. General disclaimer : any time we're talking about supplements, you don’t want to be starting or st...

4 years ago

34 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Jen Wylde : How a Rock Radio Personality Finally Found Sobriety

In this sixth interview episode of Surviving Opioids, I talk to Jen Wylde, host of the Sober Exposure podcast. Jen is a national rock radio personality who struggled with addiction throughout her entire life. She fell into a career filled with sex drugs and rock n roll and after years of trying to get sober, finally had enough when she overdosed in 2018 in front of her son. She's now three years sober, works in the treatment industry and carries the message of recovery to anyone in nee...

4 years ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Methadone vs Suboxone : Similarities and Differences Between the Two Treatments

The two most common medication-assisted treatment (MAT) strategies for OUD are Methadone and Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone). Nearly everyone has some familiarity with the two, but there remains a lot of misinformation regarding treatment. In this episode, I discuss the pharmacology of opioid replacement medications - how they work/ why they work, etc. - and review some of the similarities and differences between these two treatment options. Follow along on Instagram @reactionrecovery for...

4 years ago

34 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Navigating Addictions Within the Home - Part II

Second of a 2-part series discussing some of the common dynamics involving interactions with loved ones who are actively addicted and some considerations to increase the likelihood of being helpful and avoiding accidental harm. A basic summary of the last talk is: 1) It can be a challenge dealing with someone in active addiction who doesn’t seem to have the willingness to change, and 2) If you understand that this person has good reasons for choosing this particular method of self-so...

4 years ago

41 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Navigating Addictions Within the Home - Part I

Addiction is a family condition. It doesn’t happen in a vacuum, we don’t recover from it in a vacuum, so the more we can better educate and assist the people who are the closest to the addiction - i.e. the more people that understand the dynamics of what's actually happening - the better chance the addicted person has at eventually finding sustainable recovery. Dealing with loved ones/ family members/friends with addictions is incredibly challenging. There are a lot of dynamics at play...

4 years ago

33 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

How Endorphin Activity Influences Opioid Addiction and Considerations for Recovery

This episode is about the biology of the endorphin system (the body's natural opioid system) and how early life dysregulation of this system becomes a major risk factor for later life Endorphins – which are the love and attachment chemicals – need to be considered if we want to start feeling better once an opioid dependency is ended and those outside opioids (e.g. heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, etc. ) are removed and taken out of the picture We'll be talking about the opioid ap...

4 years ago

46 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Mike Govoni: Somatic Experiencing | Trauma Healing | Recovery Coaching

Episode 10 is an interview with the Integrative Recovery and trauma-informed Health and Wellness Coach, Mike Govoni. Mike developed an opioid addiction at a young age, was introduced to recovery and has now been fully abstinent for 16 years. Like so many others, Mike's journey into sobriety was met with a lot of difficulties of its own, and it wasn't until experiencing deep suffering years after ending the addiction that he was forced to confront and heal the traumas that were the or...

4 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Interpreting The Polyvagal Theory and How Safety Impacts Addiction Recovery - Part III

Part 3 of a 3-part series about how the physiological feeling of safety and hypervigilance impacts the prognosis of addiction recovery. This episode concludes the discussion about Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory and gives an interpretation of how this current research relates to opioid addiction. I hope this series was helpful. Ensuring that clients, friends, or whoever I'm working with feel safe is the foundation for everything that I do, and it's always at the front of my...

4 years ago

42 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Interpreting the Polyvagal Theory and How Safety Impacts Addiction Recovery: Part II

Whether we’re recovering ourselves and trying to carry a message, dealing with a family member or friend, working in the treatment industry, the one thing that everyone wants to do is to help. And the only way that we can help evoke an actual change - that is something beyond forceful intervention, coerced treatment, or incarceration - is through safety. If the person does not feel safe with us, we can't help them. That’s all there is to it. Once we can digest and process that fact, th...

4 years ago

31 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Interpreting The Polyvagal Theory and How Safety Impacts Addiction Recovery - Part I

In this first of 2-part series, I discuss Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory and how it relates to addiction recovery: If we are feeling safe, our entire internal physiology shifts away from stress and towards calmness, and where there is calmness, healing can happen. With a constantly dysregulated internal environment, healing won't happen. And even if someone manages to white knuckle some consecutive abstinence time, if their body doesn’t eventually shift over into a state of safet...

4 years ago

36 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

The Role of Vivitrol (IM Naltrexone) in the Treatment of OUD

The three primary Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) options for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) are methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone. The first two are considered opioid agonist replacements, while the third (naltrexone) is an opioid antagonist, which mechanistically means that it performs entirely different than the others. Taking medication to transition away from your opioid of choice into a life of recovery is a proven and effective method of treatment. Despite this it remains a ver...

4 years ago

19 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

How DLPA Can Help with Opioid Withdrawal

If you're newly recovering from an opioid dependency, your endorphin-regulating system is out of whack 🙁⁣ ⁣ In fact, it was likely out of whack before the addiction. ⁣ ⁣ A dysregulated endorphin system will have you feeling very uncomfortable. You might be able to will-power your way through a few months of abstinence, but unless you start regenerating what's missing, most people eventually drift back to the one thing that can be relied upon : ⁣ ⁣ More opiates. ⁣ ⁣ You can call it post-acute ...

4 years ago

19 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

How Does Ego-Fatigue Affect Addictions?

Have you ever heard an old-timer tell a newcomer, "Just don't drink!" Makes plenty of sense on the surface, and it's a tough line to argue. After all if you're trying to stay away from something, "just not doing it" seems like a reasonable suggestion. But what's built into that line is the assumption that simply forcing abstinence onto a situation for long enough will somehow cure the person of whatever intolerable distress they're going through. 'Ego-fatigue' is a concept that's been stud...

4 years ago

21 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Robert White : Heroin Addiction | Incarceration | Spirituality | Redemption

In episode 03 Jeff interview Robert White, owner of Any Length Retreat in Flugerville, TX. Out of gratitude for his own recovery from addiction, Robert and his family founded Any Length Retreat in 2012 to help addicted men and their families find lifelong recovery through community support and the application of the 12 Steps. Robert can empathize with the hopelessness one feels in active addiction. He took his first drink at age 12, and his alcohol abuse eventually led him to illicit drugs...

4 years ago

1 hour 13 minutes

Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

Jen Elizabeth: Childhood Trauma | Social Activism | Harm Reduction

Episode 2 of Surviving Opioids is packed full of incredible perspectives from one of the realest, rawest, and honest voices in the addiction recovery community. Jen Elizabeth is a writer, speaker, trauma educator, Harm Reduction Specialist with The Sidewalk Project, and the founder of Resurrektion of Me, a community for people healing from trauma and addiction. She is the author of the book, “Shape of a Woman.” And host of the “Sober Mom Squad.” As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, fami...

4 years ago

1 hour 12 minutes