by Duane Osterlind | Feb 11, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Recovery, Teens
Children who grow up in an addictive home internalize a lot of toxic shame where they lose the ability to believe in their own worth and value. For some people, it has never been instilled in them, to begin with. But there is an emotional connection between the addict...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 5, 2021 | Blog
When Cathy Ferree was appointed president of the Indiana State Museum in 2017, she met a woman who talked about her son who had died of an opioid overdose who now runs the Overdose Lifeline. Also raised by two psychiatrists, Cathy is aware of the stigma behind mental...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 4, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Recovery, Teens
A lot of times, parents out there have kids struggling with addiction and they don’t know what to do or how to notice it. Unfortunately, adolescent addiction is oftentimes written off by a lot of parents because they think what they see as some crazy teenage...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 29, 2021 | Blog
In this world of opioid addiction and overdose where more people are dying each year now from opioid-related overdose than those that died in the Vietnam War, could we ever imagine a time where humanity is finally free of these substances? John Halpern and David...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 28, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Recovery
Substance abuse disorder is something that people don’t always discuss, and what you don’t know, is where you can go awry. On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane talks to Cathy Ferree, the CEO of the Indiana State Museum, about their...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 22, 2021 | Blog
Addiction is a family disease because everybody around you suffers from it. The family has a very important role to play during this healing process and there needs to be understanding and compassion. Laura’s Story Coming from a family of many alcoholics, Laura was...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 21, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Recovery
Opium has been around but what many people don’t realize is how much it has shaped society and culture. The United States has spent over $1 trillion on drug enforcement since President Nixon declared a war on drugs. And by any measure, that crisis has become...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 14, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane speaks with mother and son, Laura and Tom Boldt, authors of Unraveled, A Mother and Son Story of Addiction and Redemption. They talk about their story of recovery and how they worked together to get recovery. They...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 4, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Food Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy
On this episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane sits down with Jeff Nash to talk about addiction, recovery, and the importance of finding and engaging in a recovery community. Jeff is the executive director at Habilitat in Hawaii. Raised in Dallas, Jeff struggled...
by Duane Osterlind | Dec 18, 2020 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Anxiety, Depression, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, PTSD, Therapy, Trauma
On this episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane talks to Dylan Beynon, founder and CEO of Mindbloom, a health and well-being company that provides physician-prescribed psychedelics and guided ketamine therapy. Dylan describes the time he first experienced...
