Not Your Average IV User

Max Liles

Max Liles is a person in long term recovery, licensed social worker and independent chemical dependency counselor who invites guests to debunk myths and blow through stereotypes about addiction, treatment and recovery. These conversations disguised as interviews are meant to make you think and empower you to take personal responsibility for the changes you make in your own life.

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    NYAIVU Ep. 035 - Paul Solotaroff, Senior Writer Rolling Stone Magazine

    In the late winter of 2023, I had just finished a workout with the 9a CrossFit class. A tall fella stood at the end of the gym - dressed in all black, with a fresh pair of J’s on. I thought, “This is my guy.”  This was Paul. Paul has been a senior writer at Rolling Stone for thirty years. He covered the NFL concussion scandal, including the Aaron Hernandez story, was the first to report the horror-show conditions at Walter Reade Hospital, and has written a series of stories that helped free innocent men who were doing life without parole in state prisons. He is the winner of two Genesis Awards and more than a half-dozen selections to the Best American Sports Writing anthologies, produced the Documentary hit “How to Fix a Drug Scandal” & has been a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award finalist.  Over the next weeks after we met, Paul spent time in Southern Ohio to learn about the breadth of the opioid epidemic and the overdose crisis and the small town, grass roots approach to reintegrating individuals with substance use disorders back into the community.  Paul told that story in the most recent drop of Rolling Stone magazine.  In Ep. 036, Paul talks about his experience in shedding light in the stories that happen in the dark.  Not Your Average IV User is streaming almost everywhere you listen to podcasts. You can help us out by telling all the people you love that this project exists.

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    Not Your Average IV User Episode 30 - Philip Eil

    NYAIVU has been both humbling and rewarding - having guests discuss their deepest and darkest days so candidly while simultaneously choosing this platform to share their hard won victories and triumphs. In Ep. 030 we welcome Philip Eil, a freelance journalist based in Rhode Island, who has been at work for over a decade chronicling a story closely related to this project. Below, from Philip: “I’m writing a book about Paul Volkman, who was a pain-clinic doctor in Portsmouth from 2003 to 2005 (and for a few additional months in Chillicothe) before he was shut down by the DEA. Volkman went on trial for prescription drug-dealing in Cincinnati and was eventually sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in prison, which I believe is the longest sentence given to ANY U.S. doctor convicted of drug-dealing during the opiate epidemic. One Chicago TV-news station dubbed him the "Pill Mill Killer." Volkman went to college and medical school with my dad, and I’ve been working on this story since 2009. I wrote a magazine article about the case in 2017 (https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/features/pill-mill-portsmouth/), but there's much, much more to the story. My book is currently tentatively scheduled for publication in Spring of 2024.” Not Your Average IV User is discoverable almost everywhere you listen to podcasts. You can help us out by telling all the people you love that this project exists.

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Max Liles is a person in long term recovery, licensed social worker and independent chemical dependency counselor who invites guests to debunk myths and blow through stereotypes about addiction, treatment and recovery. These conversations disguised as interviews are meant to make you think and empower you to take personal responsibility for the changes you make in your own life.