Health Professionals in Recovery Sean Fogler and William Kinkle

Episode 9: The Overdose Crisis Meets COVID19, is "Self-Care" Really a Thing?

Join Sean Fogler and Bill Kinkle as they return to discuss the difficulty of working on the front lines at the intersection point of the overdose crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. The team tries to tackle the difficulties many of our friends who suffer with problematic substance use and experience homelessness deal with, many of which have been exacerbated by COVID19.

Sean and Bill also dig deep into the concept of "self-care" and debate its utility in the current climate. Of course they also talk about health professional monitoring programs and how their control and discrimination have prevented valuable clinicians from serving during the pandemic.

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Episode 8: The Untapped Resource: Family with Patrick Doyle

Join our hosts as we chat with our good friend Patrick Doyle from Family Addiction Coaching as we discuss the role of the family in a person's recovery. Often the family is excluded from treatment and viewed either as "co-dependent" or "enabling" therefore, seen as a liability. However, many health professionals who struggle with substance use have deep seeded relationships with their families, spouses and children. How do we begin to change the culture and see the family as a critical element to long term recovery? Listen as we discuss about the most ignored, but valuable resource a person brings.

About Patrick Doyle:

Patrick Doyle has been working with both Families and Individuals suffering from substance use disorders, depression, and other behavioral health issues for thirty years. He earned a Masters of Social Work degree in 1986 from Boston College, and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts. Patrick follows the NASW Code Of Ethics.

Patrick is a qualified Substance Abuse Professional according to U.S. D.O.T. regulations.

In addition to working as a senior clinician at employee assistance programs, Patrick has provided coaching in his independent practice. Patrick served for several years as Substance Misuse Consultant for The Boston Red Sox organization.

Contact Patrick:

You can follow Patrick on Twitter @PatrickDoyle_35.
https://familyaddictioncoach.com

Family Addiction Coaching with Patrick Doyle podcast:
https://familyaddictioncoach.com/podcast/

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Episode 7: Is This What Prelapse Feels Like? Relapse Prevention

Join the team in this episode as they take a deep dive into one of the most abstract concepts a person in recovery faces. Often relapse prevention plans are manufactured on an assembly line and delivered with no consideration for the individual. The factors that potentially jeopardize our recovery can be subtle and undetectable. Sean and Bill embark on a transparent discussion regarding Bill’s recent close call, how he avoided disaster, why sustained recovery requires an individual to understand themselves well, the importance of peer support, and the role of the family. We hope you enjoy this episode and it offers something useful for either your own recovery planning or the patients you care for.

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Episode 6: Health Professional Monitoring Programs

This episode we are hosted by Zachary Siegel of Changing the Narrative and the Health in Justice Action Lab where we discuss physicians health programs and other professional monitoring programs. The panel consists of Health Professionals in Recovery hosts Sean Fogler and Bill Kinkle, Dr. Peter Grinspoon of Harvard University, and Leo Beletsky of Northeastern University School of Law.

Links:
Practicing What We Preach-Ending Physician Health Program Bans on Opioid-Agonist Therapy
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1907875

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/06/757990241/for-health-workers-struggling-with-addiction-why-are-treatment-options-limited

https://khn.org/news/doctors-and-nurses-with-addictions-often-denied-a-crucial-recovery-option/

Witnessed Urine Drug Screens in Drug Treatment: Humiliating and Harmful
https://filtermag.org/urine-screen-drug-treatment/

Twitter:
Leo Beletsky @LeoBeletsky
Zach Siegel @ZachWritesStuff
Peter Grinspoon @Peter_Grinspoon
Sean Fogler @sean_fogler
Bill Kinkle @billkinkle

Episode 5: Why Do We Hate Drug Users? Stigma

In this episode of Health Professionals in Recovery we shift from having a guest and recorded a lecture given by Bill Kinkle to an audience of first year medical students during their fifth week of training. Bill spoke to them about recovery, stigma, race, the war of drugs, physician health programs, treatment, and advocacy through the lens of his own personal experience.

Bill explains how our nation’s policies surrounding drugs combined with television, film, and print media have shaped how we think about people who use drugs. Moreover, our unconscious bias directly impacts how we care about our patients as well as how we view ourselves when we develop substance use disorders. Through this exploration Bill explains how his experiences have fueled his advocacy on several fronts.

Due to several references to slides during the talk the video files can be found here:

https://vimeo.com/360056804

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXQSoozee78&feature=youtu.be

This episode we welcome Andrew Kessler to the show to discuss an important aspect of recovery and one that is often forgotten, policy.

Andrew D. Kessler, JD, is founder and principal of Slingshot Solutions LLC, a consulting firm that
specializes in behavioral health policy. His clients, past and present, include the International
Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC), the California Consortium of Addiction Programs &
Professionals (CCAPP), and Faces and Voices of Recovery. With 20 years of policy experience- and over a
decade in behavioral health- Kessler is a fixture in circles that advocate for substance abuse treatment,
prevention, and research. He collaborates frequently with congressional offices, the White House Office
of National Drug Control Policy, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and other federal actors. Kessler has written
legislation and report language adopted by both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, and
has presented orally before such bodies as the Scientific Management Review Board, the National
Conference on Addictive Disorders, and the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. He received his
Bachelor of Arts in 1993 from Washington University in St. Louis. In 1999, he graduated from American
University’s Washington College of Law, where he received multiple awards and recognition for his legal
analysis and moot court arguments. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with his wife and two children.

Andrew can be reached at:

www.slingshotsolutions.net

Twitter: @slingshotDC