Your Road to Personal Addiction Recovery

Your Road to Personal Addiction Recovery

Heroin and opiate prescription pain medication addiction is a massive health problem that is pandemic and now threatens an entire generation of young people, aged 21-35, their families and their friends. From 2009 to 2013, Arizona deaths from heroin and prescription opiates (Percocet, Oxycodone, hydrocodone, etc) overdose have doubled and now claim the life of almost two young people per day. Nationally, more deaths now occur as a result of drug overdose than from automobile accidents. Dr. William Nelson has an ambitious goal of turning the tide of this horrible problem by cutting overdose deaths nationally by 50% in the next five years. There are a myriad of challenges that need to be accomplished in order to making such a huge impact on this overwhelming societal health problem. These challenges will be covered in a monthly show entitled, “Your Personal Road to Addiction Recovery.” The topics included in the program will include: education and prevention, public drug policy and drug laws, economics of drug industry and detox and rehab centers, latest advances in heroin and opiate addiction treatment, in-patient versus out-patient withdrawal and treatment, counseling and inner personal work for improved long term sobriety, impact of addiction on family dynamics, and other pertinent topics as they arise. Please tune in to this program and invite everyone you know that is personally affected by this overwhelming problem. Chances are, everyone you know has been personally affected or knows a friend, co-worker, or neighbor that has lost a loved one due to death by overdose. Dr. William Nelson is a nationally known expert, achieving great success in the treatment of heroin, opiate, and alcohol addiction, especially in cases where patients have failed with previous conventional treatment approaches. Dr. Nelson is a licensed Naturopathic Medical Doctor and has 20 years of experience combining the latest advances in medical science with time-honored natural therapies for optimal patient outcomes. He is the Medical Director of National Addiction Services treatment center in Scottsdale, AZ. For more information see www.naltrexpellet.com or facebook www.facebook.com/strength2overcome

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August 3, 2025
Jeff serves as the Executive Director of Admissions & Business Development developing and managing the admissions process to ensure clients and families are guided through the intake process with dignity and support. He also manages the business development through assisting the company’s mission and future goals by building community partnerships and overseeing marketing campaigns. He started with Rising Phoenix in 2019 as Directo...
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As the Director of Business Development at Cottonwood Tucson, Musomi McDowell brings over 25 years of experience in multi-level leadership. He started his career at Cottonwood Tucson in the year 2000 as a Mental Health Tech. He then became a Milieu Manager and was promoted to a Patient Advocate. The rest of his tenure has been in Marketing and Business Development. He possesses a distinctive ability to cultivate enduring profession...

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March 4, 2025
Faust Ruggiero is a psychologist who has been in private practice for over thirty-five years. Before entering private practice, he worked in clinics for deaf children, prisons, nursing homes, substance abuse centers, inpatient facilities, and is a consultant for major national and international corporations. He is a published research author and a professional clinical trainer. In the summer of 2016, he began to develop The Fix You...
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Dr. Nelson interviews Rebekah Mutch who is in long-term recovery and is deeply passionate about helping others still struggling with addiction. She spent much of my adult life caught in the grip of addiction, which led her to a place of hopelessness—homeless, in and out of jail and rehab, and estranged from family and loved ones.

In 2021, she had the chance to come to Kentucky from California and try the NET Device. It was a comp...

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Audrey Hope, D.D. is an award-winning certified addiction therapist and holds a Doctor of Divinity degree, who uses her abilities as a clairvoyant psychic medium to heal patients from trauma. A multi-talented force in the healing arts for over 20 years, Audrey Hope’s gentle-but-firm approach in addiction and relationships gets to the ‘root of the root’ to solve problems through spiritual modalities as she guides patients to freedom...

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July 4, 2024
Jeff Lott
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Tom Welch
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December 7, 2023
Lauryn Thayer
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Randal Lyons is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine, shamanic practitioner, addiction recovery expert, and author. He was born and raised in New York, studied Chinese Medicine and Core Shamanism in California, and now lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his wife and two charismatic Siamese cats. He is also 29+ years sober and prior to that, his “field work” in the area of drugs, music, and mayhem led him to holistic medicine. Decades ago, ...
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Nico's journey is a testament to the power of resilience and personal growth, as he overcame significant challenges to emerge as an author, graduate, and successful business owner.
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September 6, 2023
Kay Sumner is an Emmy Nominated Producer and Film Director. She has three Emmy nominations and two People’s Choice awards as the Co-Creator and Producer for The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan. Her directorial debut is a critically acclaimed 54 min. documentary film entitled “SURVIVORS,” detailing real opioid stories of recoveries and losses. She, along with her husband Murray, who is the co-executive producer of the documentary, h...
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July 11, 2023
Today's guest is Jared Callahan, an award-winning, Emmy-nominated director/producer of "Clean Slate," a documentary film about two friends in a residential recovery center making a short film about recovery. The documentary captures the heart and souls of these two aspiring filmmakers and provides a unique insight into the challenges and rewards in their road of recovery while making their film. https://www.peoplepeoplemedia.com/fi...
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Listen in as we hear from Dr. Laura Petracek, author of the new book "The DBT Workbook for Alcohol and Drug Addiction: Skills and Strategies for Emotional Regulation, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention."
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Edwige Gilbert, Transformation Guide and Founder of New Life Directions, reinvents lives and creates fresh starts driven by a purposeful vision. As an international speaker and author of The Fresh Start Promise and Victim to Victorious, Edwige turns stress into success by clearing unwanted habits and behaviors, creating self confidence and exuberant enjoyment of life, or as she calls it in French, “Joie de Vivre.” Her proven proces...
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February 7, 2023
Dr. Robb Kelly is a renowned Addiction Expert. Born and raised in Manchester, UK, who is eccentric, no holds bar, successful, and places his patients first kind of man. Robb has overcome homelessness, alcohol dependency, trauma, PTSD, and MDD and a whirlwind of events to be the "Gordon Ramsay" of the addiction treatment world. Before Robb succumbed to addiction and mental health issues, he played bass guitar at Abbey Studio with Q...
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January 3, 2023
Austin Pollard is a recovering addict with a commitment to helping others. He became addicted to opioids while in the military and has gone through a long road to recovery. Austin is currently a state housing program manager for a managed healthcare and insurance provider and a practicum therapist intern for a mental health practice. Austin has also served in various capacities for non-profit organizations in Reno such as the Downt...
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December 6, 2022
Milton Cohen is the president and CEO of Safe Rx, a company on a mission to fight America’s opioid epidemic with its award-winning locking prescription vial (LPV®). Milton is a seasoned operator and prior private equity executive with experience in specialty manufacturing and business and healthcare services. Mr. Cohen holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Vassar College and an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory U...
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November 1, 2022
The journey of corporate professional and former CEO Roger Smith is an impactful tale of survival. As a youth, the tough-as-nails and inspiring young man overcame a life of homelessness and severe substance abuse to triumph in becoming one of the country's leading lights in the business world.

His story is now shared in the critically acclaimed new book, THE MOST UNLIKELY LEADER, which powerfully and eloquently recounts his life ...

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Leonard Lee Buschel marvels that he survived the first 44 years of his life… He still can’t believe that he didn’t get knocked off by drug dealers, thieves or the copious amounts of drugs he himself ingested. Or locked up for life in a U.S. or international prison. And then again, there were the near-death asthma attacks, open-heart surgery and the brain tumor. Yes, it’s a whale of tale—all true—that he writes in his acclaimed auto...
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August 2, 2022
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