We’d like to welcome our listeners to our audio journal series. I’m Carolyn Bradfield, CEO of InterAct LifeLine, a technology service focused on helping addictions treatment and collegiate recovery programs keep individuals connected to treatment, to community and to their families to improve recovery and reduce relapse.
Episode 19 - InterAct Studios: Exploring the Risk Factors of Addiction with Dr. Sandy Newes
Addiction is often misunderstood with perceptions ranging from poor choices, moral failings or a brain disorder. Dr. Sandra Newes, clinical psychologist focuses on the treatment of both adolescents and young adults diagnosed with substance misuse and addiction, clarifies what addiction is and is not. She delves into the risk factors that all parents should know and understand in their children and prevention strategies to lower those risks.
20 Dec 2019
Episode 18 - The Gift of Community
Give Yourself the Gift of Community. Make connections to help support you as you battle addiction. If you are struggling with addiction or have an addict in your family, going it alone is never a good idea. I was fortunate in many ways that when my 14-year old daughter began her struggle, I had close friends that were there for me who had watched Laura grow up and knew I needed help. And people were there for me throughout the 15 years we battled the disease, and in the end...
20 Dec 2019
Episode 16 - The Gift of Forgiveness
One of the bests gifts to give yourself during the holidays, forgiveness. Why it’s important to forgive yourself, your family and friends and your addicted loved one This will be my second Christmas without my daughter Laura who struggled for 15 years with addiction but lost her life to overdose on December 21, 2017, right before the holidays. But even when Laura was with us, holidays were often stressful because I never knew what kind of tension and drama she might create for th...
20 Dec 2019
Episode 17 - The Gift of Self-Care
Give Yourself the Gift of Self-Care How to keep yourself healthy, centered, balanced & connected when you struggle with an addicted loved one This will be my second Christmas without my daughter Laura who struggled for 15 years with addiction but lost her life to overdose on December 21, 2017, right before the holidays. In the two years since her death, I’ve taken care of myself in some ways, but not in others. Battling addiction with a loved one or battling it as an addict takes a...
20 Dec 2019
Episode 15 - The Gift of Knowledge
The holidays can be a dreaded time of the year if someone you love is suffering or has lost their battle with the disease of addiction. This will be my second Christmas without my daughter Laura who struggled for 15 years with addiction but lost her life to overdose on December 21, 2017, right before the holidays. It’s hard to think about gift giving during this time of year, because the holidays may be filled with regret, grief, or stress. This Audio Journal focuses on gi...
19 Dec 2019
Episode 14 - Gifts to Give Yourself During the Holidays
How to bring joy back into what can be a difficult time of year. The holidays are the most wonderful, but often the most dreadful time of the year if someone you love is suffering from or has lost their battle with the disease of addiction. This will be my second Christmas without my daughter Laura who struggled for 15 years with addiction but lost her life to overdose on December 21, 2017, right before the holidays. But even when Laura was with us, holidays were often stressful b...
6 Dec 2019
Episode 12 - Parent Playbook – No Unforced Errors
How to avoid mistakes that put your parenting game at risk. This Audio Journal series focuses on what it takes to coach your family through the Opioid Crisis with the right game plan, a playbook, an understanding of your opponent and help from your “assistants” when it’s called for. This episode will focus on how to avoid unforced errors that put your parenting game at risk. I watched Auburn and Alabama slug it out in the Iron Bowl with three touchdowns coming from errors made by ...
6 Dec 2019
Episode 13 - Parent Playbook - Asking for Help
The “When”, “Who” and “How” to get help for a struggling teen. This Audio Journal series focuses on what it takes to coach your family through the Opioid Crisis with the right game plan, a playbook, an understanding of your opponent and help from your “assistants” when it’s called for. This episode will focus on why you need a good staff around you because no game is winnable if you are the only coach calling the plays. Football coaches know that they don’t have all of the answers. ...
6 Dec 2019
Episode 11 - Parent Playbook – How to Be Data Driven
Know the facts to help you make good decisions This Audio Journal series focuses on what it takes to coach your family through the Opioid Crisis with the right game plan, a parent playbook, an understanding of your opponent and help from your “assistants” when it’s called for. This episode will focus on the value of analyzing the data to understand the facts so you can make the right play calls. Nick Saban at Alabama implemented a GPS tracking system to monitor his player’s activity in ...
6 Dec 2019
Episode 10 - Parent Playbook: How to Play Offense
Why a Focus on Prevention is so Critical If you listened to the last Audio Journal, we focused on what it takes to coach your family through the Opioid Crisis with a game plan, a playbook, an understanding of your opponent and help from your “assistants” when it’s called for. This episode will focus on what every successful college football coach knows and understand, that it’s much easier to play offense vs. always be on the defensive. Football coaches don’t start preparing duri...
6 Dec 2019
Episode 9 - Using the Parent Playbook to Coach Your Family
The Game Against the Opioid and Addiction Crisis that Parents Must Win We’re coming to the end of the college football season where an elite group of teams will realize their dreams of winning their division, being tapped for a bowl game or being selected for the national championship playoffs. Every one of the teams had one thing in common; they started their season with a game plan, did their research and homework to create the plan and adjusted it dynamically for each and every game....
2 Dec 2019
Episode 8 - Technology to Take on the Opioid Crisis
Audio Journal Technology to Take on the Opioid Crisis When I look at my iPhone or open up my laptop, I’m like most people going to Facebook. But unlike most people, I’m not spending very much time checking in with my friends or searching for the latest products I can’t do without. I’m watching the posts of families in Facebook groups that I belong to that are expressing profound grief, sadness and despair over losing a loved one to overdose or their own personal struggles with add...
26 Nov 2019
Episode 7 - The Elderly, the Forgotten Victims of Addiction
Audio Journal The Elderly, the Forgotten Victims of Addiction For 20 years, my mother in law had a great relationship with the man she fell in love with when she met him on a cruise at age 74. But things changed dramatically a few years ago. As he aged, he experienced a number of health issues that plague so many of the elderly. His joints started to fail, his health declined, and he began to experience persistent pain. Enter a less than competent doctor who mana...
26 Nov 2019
Episode 6 - The Power of Gratitude
Audio Journal The Power of Gratitude You may be struck that the topic of this audio journal is gratitude, especially in the midst of the opioid crisis, the deaths of 70,000 people each year from overdose and the ravages of an addiction pandemic. After the loss of my daughter Laura to overdose 2 years ago gratitude has been the one thing that has helped me through what could have been an unbearable loss. I am grateful for the time I had with her, for the lessons her disease taught me, fo...
1 Nov 2019
Episode 5 - Turning Grief into Purpose
Transcript How My Company Transformed to Take On the Opioid Crisis If there ever was a charmed life, I was sure that I was living it. I grew up in the perfect small town, raised by the picture-perfect parents. My grades were outstanding, and I breezed through college, married the popular guy from my hometown and settled into having it all....2 beautiful kids, a loving husband and a technology career. But sometimes life throws you curve balls, and it threw me some big ones ...
1 Nov 2019
Episode 4 - Market Drivers for Technology in Mental Health and Addictions Treatment
Transcript Every president since Bill Clinton has tried to tackle the question of how to improve healthcare in America, but the government can’t seem to find its footing with a solution that pleases everyone. But quietly, private enterprise has been advancing the ball in medical care by introducing new insurance models, concierge medicine and technology solutions to make access to healthcare more streamlined and cost effective. These advances, driven by the private sector, are dropping...
1 Nov 2019
Episode 3 - Debunking Addiction Myths
Transcript We live in a world of urban myths. You’ve heard the stories that we never really landed on the moon; it was all shot in a sound studio. Or what about the myth that we are storing aliens in Roswell, New Mexico after their space crafts cashed on Earth? Myths seem to be part of our culture, but unfortunately, they exist in the way people view others who struggle with addiction. Let’s look at some of the more common myths and debunk them as we get more educated about the r...
4 Oct 2019
Episode 1 - Recovery or Remission? How We Think About Treatment for Addiction
September was National Recovery Month, created by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration otherwise known as SAMHSA. Held every September the focus is to educate people that substance use treatment and mental health services can enable those with mental and substance use disorders to live healthy and rewarding lives. I’d like to dig into addiction and the concept of recovery in the way we treat people that are struggling with the disease. The first thing we need to defin...
4 Oct 2019
Episode 2 - The Case for Family Support
Years ago, my 15-year old daughter Laura became a danger to herself as her drug use escalated out of control. I got professional advice, enrolled her in a wilderness therapy program, followed by a long-term commitment to a therapeutic boarding school. Right after enrollment in the school, 20 families gather for our orientation. It took us 4 hours to go around the room, introduce ourselves and share why are child had enrolled. The room was full of emotion. We were all heartbroken that we had f...
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