American Pandemic

Assisted Recovery Centers of America (ARCA)
  • 5.0 (5)
  • Mental Health

This podcast, hosted by Aaron M. Laxton, LMSW discusses the opioid pandemic that is gripping the United States. What is the history of this public health crisis? How is science working to address and overcome the crisis?

Episodes

  1. 06/14/2023

    2022 Reflecting on Progress and Challenges in Addiction Treatment

    In this episode, Aaron discusses the most recent overdose and death numbers provided by the Missouri Insititute for Mental Health and University of Missouri- St. Louis. The numbers provided are from January-December 2022. Questions about the data should be directed to Brittany Blanchard (Brittany.blanchard@mimh.edu)    If you or a loved one is impacted by substance use or alocohol use, help is available regardless of your ability to pay. Call us today 314-645-6840 or visit us at www.arcamidwest.com

  2. 01/28/2020 ·  Bonus

    EP 3: Weekly News Roundup

    In this episode,  Aaron Laxton reviews several stories from around the United States and British Columbia. Aaron reviews stories from Ohio, Illinois, Alabama, Arizona and Vancouver, BC.

  3. 01/24/2020

    EP 2: PrEP for HIV, but have you heard of PrEP for Opioid Addiction

    In this episode, we discuss the comparison's with the HIV movement and current medications such as Truvada that is used as Pre-exposure Prophylaxis. Percy Menzies proposes the use of oral naltrexone be used as PrEP to protect people against opioid relapse. We also discuss Ryan White and the user's unions that are really pushing to shift power back to people who use drugs in order to live healthier lives.

  4. 01/12/2020

    EP 1: Interview with Percy Menzies

    As our country settles into the realization that we have an opioid crisis, leaders and communities struggle to keep people alive.  In this episode, I discuss the current public health crisis that the United States is facing. I talk with the President and Founder of Assisted Recovery Centers of America (ARCA), Percy Menzies, to learn more about the history of how we arrived at this moment in the epidemic. We also discuss what is currently being done and what needs to be done moving forward.

  • 4 Episodes

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This podcast, hosted by Aaron M. Laxton, LMSW discusses the opioid pandemic that is gripping the United States. What is the history of this public health crisis? How is science working to address and overcome the crisis?

Information

  • Creator
    Assisted Recovery Centers of America (ARCA)
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2020
  • Show Website
    American Pandemic