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.
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 a…
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…
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 …
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 w…
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…
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 the…
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 …
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, a…
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 underst…
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 underst…
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 d…
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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 che…
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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 overdo…
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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 th…
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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…
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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 e…
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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…
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 lo…
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 sub…