The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society

The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society

Listen to 15-20 minute long interviews of experts on various topics related to mental and general health. The topics will be continuously expanded. The interviews are designed for both professionals and non-professionals. Topics range from climate change issues and the basis of new medication research, COVID-19 issues, the effect of media on girls's self-images, discussions of violence, same-sex marriages, pollution, bullying, divorce, OCD, addictions, borderline personality disorders, mental health issues in the deaf, hallucinations, obesity, addiction in physicians, TMS, depressions, anxiety and stress, hypnosis, bullying, emotional and sexual abuse, MAOI, domestic violence, IBS, self-cutting, medication and children, eating disorders, medication metabolism, pharmacogenomics, forensic issues, dementia, suicide psychiatric treatment, love, care-giving youth, teenage LGBT issues, stuttering, play, PTSD, medication side effects, the effect of war violence on children, and so on. Please note that any opinion or position expressed in these interviews is not necessarily that of the host or of the Florida Psychiatric Society. Any individual treatment decision must be the product of a proper doctor-patient interaction. Likewise, new or additional information on each topic may have developed since the time the interviews occurred. Consult your physician for such possible changes. Additional production funding support comes from the Wellington Retreat, Florida. Knowledge has the power to understand and improve ourselves.

Episodes

Fentanyl - A Real Discussion

September 7, 2025 • 27 mins
Kellen Russoniello, J.D., Public Health Director, Drug Policy Alliance, offers the history and reason for its dangers, the reduction in overdose deaths but not the reduction in overdoses, Narcan, programs that reduce drug abuse and those that failed, the very real problems of program funding cutbacks, community attitudes towards sanctioned actions, contingency and other management involvements,, new drugs coming to the users, how m...
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Understanding, And The New Tool For, Tardive Dyskinesia (TD)

August 10, 2025 • 19 mins
Stuart Isaacson, M.D., neurologist, explains TD, the role of dopamine in psychiatric and then this treatment induced consequential movement disorder, proper diagnosis, how both psychiatric and neurologic treatments are very helpful, but he also weighs the risk-benefits of now the increasing use of antipsychotics for mood disorders. He further talks of the VMAT2 systems empowering the two new medications. Important material. May 202...
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Genetic Testing To Help With Medication Choices.

August 10, 2025 • 17 mins
Rachel Earls, Ph.D., outlines the roles, science, and limitations of this powerful clinical tool for the selection of medication. This is a great guide on how an individual metabolizes many medications, and so it helps get proper doses for better efficacy and fewer side effects. It does not predict outcome, but significantly assists with treatment choices. She also speaks to the differences between labs that require a medical presc...
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Functional Medicine and Psychiatry - A Different and Effective Choice.

August 10, 2025 • 21 mins
Achina Stein, D.O., explains the many advantages when mixing these two concepts. Functional medicine has an extensive approach exploring for other causes of illness, including valuable searches for what are often not initially obvious infections or inflammatory states, the role of nutrition, toxin exposure, a detailed history of the illness, lifestyles, etc., and then using that data for directed treatment methods, which may also i...
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The Cataract - Concepts and Treatment

August 10, 2025 • 16 mins
Matthew Weiss, M.D., eye surgeon, clarifies the nature of this very common medical condition, the types of replacement lens used, the very significant vision and functional impairments from untreated cataracts, healing, Fuchs’ Dystrophy, that 3 million surgeries occur each year just in the USA, etc. A straightforward and essential summary about generally reversible condition that can otherwise markedly interfere with the ability to...
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Key Yet Manageable Approaches To Climate Change Realities

August 10, 2025 • 17 mins
Todd Sack, M.D., 15 years ago created the My Green Doctor program as a guide to setting a functional mindset, with easy but essential actions, in response to the needed behavorial changes that climate actions demand from all of us. He joins us again to detail this potent tool to reduce the climate change ordeal. It can also save money. June 2025.
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Elderly Substance Abuse – Facts. Reality, Challenges, Successes

August 10, 2025 • 22 mins
Devon Dautrich, Ph.D., treats substance abuse in this age group. It is a candid talk of why these behaviors are new, or merely an extension of prior use, why interventions fail, the need to educate patients to accept their problem and the advantages following acceptance and change. Sometimes first treatments do not work, but with persistence, using good recommendations and hard work, very, very often a wonderful conquest prevails. ...
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Substance Abuse: Challenge and Social Policy - A Mexican Perspective

August 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Lisa Sanchez, Executive Director, Mexico Unido Contra Delincuencia (Mexico City), details substance abuse in Mexico, their harm reduction challenges and programs, use of the military in police roles, cultural realities in Mexico, gun and violence issues, drug supply-chain realities, the after effects on families, the impacts of political and social policy actions and events, etc. An open and clarifying dialogue. August 2025
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Keeping People in Substance Abuse Treatment

March 9, 2024 • 34 mins
Michael Dennis, Ph.D., reports interesting statistics as he talks about research into how to keep after care people in treatment, the role of reliable follow-up and after care, that early intervention can reduce drug use by 60%, of targeted interventions, the critical need for chronic care models, that hitting bottom is not always needed to start treatment, to train in the use of screening tools,, etc. Proper primary care screen...
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The History of Ice Cream

March 9, 2024 • 14 mins
Take a break from the serious. This 1943 radio show, in the production style of the 1940’s, overviews this widely loved food’s history. It’s 14 minutes long and matches the time to savor a generous portion of a nearly universal treat. Posted here March 2024.
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Drugs and Medicine - An Interesting 1937 Broadcast.

February 25, 2024 • 28 mins
In 1937, NBC aired this episode of the radio series ‘The World Is Yours.’ It is a theatrical style reporting of the history of several medicines. Interesting, educational, and an easy review of medical discovery and treatment. A lighter listening episode than our usual variety. Posted here February 2024.
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When Music Is Used As Therapy.

January 13, 2024 • 22 mins
Chris Pizzute is a music therapist at the Louis Armstrong Department of Music Therapy Center at the NY City Beth Israel and Mt. Sinai Hospitals. He explains the history and then the powerful roles, styles, and designs of music therapy. Entertainment and music psychotherapy both use music but in different contexts, of cultural inputs, how to help navigate through events and emotions, the ‘song of kin’ function (music we grew up and ...
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Too Many Children Are Unseen Caregivers.

November 19, 2023 • 24 mins
Connie Siskowski, R.N., Ph.D., and a CNN Hero award recipient, works to help the millions of children who go home to be essential caregivers, and who therefore have special caring needs, miss a lot of normal adolescence, and so absolutely require help and acknowledgement. She started the American Association of Caregiving Youth to face this task. The efforts include integration with local schools, of social workers that go into t...
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A New Tool -- Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS) For Depression.

November 19, 2023 • 18 mins
Ivan Cichowitz, M.D., explains the FDA approved VNS science to treat depression. He outlines the history, process, and theory, that it is used very often with medications, its increasing insurance coverage, how to know when and if it should become a treatment option, etc. VNS is a strong additional utensil in the treatment of resistant depressions. Learn and ask about this very promising mechanism.
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Climate Change and A The New ‘My Green Life’ Reality

September 7, 2023 • 17 mins
Todd Sack, M.D., without hesitancy, speaks to the needed but daunting challenge of changing individual CO2 footprints, age and generational differences, real and specific ideas on what to do that do require self-discipline and commitment, that ‘green’ can save money, the critical ‘ballot box climate change’, that positive undertakings and adjustments are occurring but perhaps not fast enough, to make it a non-partisan opportunity b...
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Nitty-Gritty Reflections on Effective Pain Management

September 7, 2023 • 33 mins
Jay Kuchera, M.D., pain management, speaks to barriers to proper pain management, the ethical, clinical, political and regulatory domains, medication and treatment costs, CDC and other guidelines, the need for proper clinical management, how cultural acceptances of suffering differ and set expectations, that improper treatment evokes the disease of desperation, differences in pain management now versus 25 years ago, that better pat...
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Drug Abuse Issues Within The Black Community

September 7, 2023 • 35 mins
Tommy McGee, psychotherapist, addiction counselor, clergy, and black, takes us on a revealing tour of life in the black communities, how many black patients view the medical system, the barriers this produces in even approaching the system for prevention and treatment, insurance barricades, the role of the churches with this and other mental health problems, the need to ‘translate’ their culture, and to morph their tangible needs i...
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Climate Change Thoughts From ‘Bush Alaska’

September 7, 2023 • 17 mins
Fish biologist Dave Cannon candidly discusses his personal fears and emotions plus his professional responses to climate change, his preceptive ‘bush Alaska’ perspective, challenging our species to cooperately make real changes, solastalgia (loss of our homes), the need to commit with examples of personal changes to reduce our CO2 footprints, etc. Thought provoking, genuine, helpful.
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Marijuana: A Realistic Update

August 6, 2023 • 19 mins
Aldo Morales, M.D., psychiatrist and addictionologist, provides from experience a no-nonsense and balanced overview of cannabis use, issues with quality control of dispensary products, understanding addiction levels, the need for research and the topics being explored, worries if used in a still developing brain, the cannabis abuse disorder, etc. August 2023
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Helping Young Children Resist Substance Abuse

June 25, 2023 • 26 mins
Linda Reihs is an educator, author, and substance abuse counselor. She promotes non-drug use with ‘knowing’ and not just ‘saying no’, teaching resilience, parents’ and siblings’ roles, not getting help to needy students especially when they move into middle school, keeping kids on a good track, the experiential preventive mode, literature to create ego-building strengths, framing designs for each day, of ‘no failures-just delayed s...
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