I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder 7 years ago, I also was agoraphobic and I also had a really bad drug addiction. I have created this podcast so that I can share my true life stories from being severely depressed to totally manic and battling with a drug addiction. I got sectioned in mental health hospitals all around the south east of the UK. I have alot to share and I just want to help as many people as I can..you are not alone!
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Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy
Dr. Taylor Nichols and McCauley Sexton
Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy is a podcast exploring substance use disorders, harm reduction, and recovery with people with lived experience, experts in the harm reduction field, and leaders in drug policy. Hosted by McCauley Sexton, an accountability coach and alternative treatment industry professional with lived experience in active use and recovery, and Dr. Taylor Nichols, an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician, each episode will pr ...
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Welcome to the Unnamed drug and recovery talk podcast, where amazing things happen.
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If you intend to recover from substance abuse, you’re probably aware of how challenging it can be. Ideally, you’d want to do everything possible to avoid relapse. It all starts by getting the right rehab facility. Kemah Palms Recovery comes highly recommended if you’re searching for a Houston addiction rehab center. To get started, you can visit our website or give us a call today. Kemah Palms Recovery - Alcohol & Drug Treatment 1013 Delesandri Lane Kemah, Texas 77565 855-568-0218s https://w ...
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Dr. Taylor Nichols and McCauley Sexton discuss a controversial topic - the use of ketamine in medical treatment including for mental health, such as depression and OCD, and for substance use disorders and recovery, and McCauley discusses his personal experience having received ketamine infusions.Por Dr. Taylor Nichols and McCauley Sexton
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I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder 7 years ago, I also was agoraphobic and I also had a really bad drug addiction. I have created this podcast so that I can share my true life stories from being severely depressed to totally manic and battling with a drug addiction. I got sectioned in mental health hospitals all around the south east of the UK. …
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I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder 7 years ago, I also was agoraphobic and I also had a really bad drug addiction. I have created this podcast so that I can share my true life stories from being severely depressed to totally manic and battling with a drug addiction. I got sectioned in mental health hospitals all around the south east of the UK. …
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Our co-hosts McCauley Sexton and Taylor Nichols, MD break down the term "recovery" to better understand the meaning of recovery from substance use disorders through a harm reduction framework and how we can reclaim the term recovery from the War on Drugs.Por Dr. Taylor Nichols and McCauley Sexton
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Stanton Peele began working on Love and Addiction in 1970, which was then published in 1975. In these fifty years he has predicted a remarkable number of addiction trends. By now it is clear that the way in which Stanton has reframed addiction for the past four decades – sometimes facing extreme opposition – has been prescient. His central thesis h…
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Lance Dodes, MD is a psychiatrist and a Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is a retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and prior Director of the substance use treatment unit of Harvard’s McLean Hospital and the Alcoholism Treatment Unit at Massach…
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Chad Sabora is a former lawyer with lived experience of drug use and a long-time grassroots harm reduction advocate turned subject matter expert. Starting his journey under the mentorship of some of the harm reduction movement's founders, Chad helped create underground naloxone distribution networks before it was legally sanctioned across the count…
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Sarah Laurel of Savage Sisters Recovery on finding and fighting for Harm Reduction
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Sarah Laurel turned her traumatic experiences from substance use disorder and justice involvement into a powerful movement for harm reduction and the empowerment of people experiencing harms from substance use and homelessness. She co-founded Savage Sisters Recovery initially as a residential treatment facility, and along the way went through her o…
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Brandi Mac, NP is a person who dropped out of high school and ended up becoming an ICU nurse practitioner. She joins McCauley Sexton and Taylor Nichols, MD on the Recovery Reform podcast to talk about her journey to love, acceptance, and harm reduction as the daughter of someone with substance use disorder and who has documented her daughter's jour…
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Tara Grace on her path to harm reduction and alternative recovery
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Tara Grace (Burn the Stigma Tara) became a harm reductionist out of necessity after seeing how the limitations of a 12 step recovery model was harming her and her community. She is a vocal advocate for harm reduction and recovering out loud, brining her story and harm reduction education to the community. You can find Tara at @BurnTheStigma across …
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Kristina Dennis, CAI on Ethical Interventions
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Kristina Dennis is a life coach and relationship expert whose life’s work is to show people how to release events of their past so they can become free of limiting beliefs. Kristina has worked as a coach since 1997 when she realized she had a gift for effectively helping others. As a Certified Addiction Interventionist (CAI), Kristina’s ethical and…
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Nicholas Crapser PhD, is the current Clinical Director of 4D Recovery in Portland, OR, which is a peer-based support for youth and adolescents seeking addiction recovery. He has a history of lived experience with substance use disorder and justice involvement, and has been a vocal advocate for improved treatment for patients with substance use diso…
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Dr. Taylor Nichols and McCauley Sexton interview Eddie Krumpotich, a person with lived experience, former teacher of the year, and an expert in substance use and harm reduction. He has consulted with two of the nations largest harm reduction organizations to help write and advocate for six substance use, harm reduction, and mental health bills in t…
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Interviewing McCauley Sexton - Part 2
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Our hosts flip roles, and Dr. Taylor Nichols interviews co-host McCauley Sexton about his childhood, his family history of substance use, his lived experience with having a substance use disorder and in residential treatment, and how he feels he has grown and changed his perspective on harm reduction and the need to reform recovery spaces.…
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Our hosts flip roles, and Dr. Taylor Nichols interviews co-host McCauley Sexton about his childhood, his family history of substance use, his lived experience with having a substance use disorder and in residential treatment, and how he feels he has grown and changed his perspective on harm reduction and the need to reform recovery spaces.…
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Interviewing Dr. Nichols - Part 2
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In the second of two episodes, McCauley Sexton interviews Dr. Taylor Nichols on his path to medicine and how his personal experience with family connections to substance use disorders in combination with his emergency medicine training led him to an improved understanding of harm reduction and eventually to become board-certified in addiction medic…
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In the first of two episodes, McCauley Sexton interviews Dr. Taylor Nichols on his path to medicine and how his personal experience with family connections to substance use disorders in combination with his emergency medicine training led him to an improved understanding of harm reduction and eventually to become board-certified in addiction medici…
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McCauley Sexton and Dr. Taylor Nichols bring you Recovery Reform, a podcast focused on changing the narrative around substance use disorders, recovery, and harm reduction, bringing you clinical insights and alternative recovery perspectives. The views and opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and do not represent that of our employers. The …
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Step 12 of the 12 Steps: Having Had a Spiritual Awakening As a Result of These Steps, We Tried to Carry This Message to Others - Kemah Palms
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After finishing the 12 Steps, you most likely will to the phase of telling enthusiastically everyone about your changes and how your life has changed for good after winning the battle with your addictions. Some people will take it very pleasant and contagious for being approached for an invitation to follow you and also make a change, while others …
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Step 11 of the 12 Steps: We Sought Through Prayer and Meditation to Improve Our Conscious Contact With God As We Understood Him - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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In our program to help and support to make you free of substance abuse, we understand how important is to make a stop and dedicate time to yourself. Praying and meditation have different approaches, but an important role. As we discuss in previous episodes, you can't handle an addiction problem by yourself. You can pray to God as if you're just tal…
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Step 10 of the 12 Steps: We Continued to Take Personal Inventory, and, When We Were Wrong, Promptly Admitted It - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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Follow-up and consistency are the keys. During the first months of any addiction recovery, the firsts months are the most difficult. We all are tempted to falling back. And when you fall down you gotta get back up no matter how bad it hurts. The goal should be to avoid that to happen. We should be realistic that bad habits that were continuously pa…
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Step Nine of the 12 Steps : We Made Direct Amends to Such Persons, Except When To Do So Would Injure Them or Others - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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There are cases where others are better of not knowing. In a case where people won't get hurt, it's ok to make a direct amendment with such a person, but some truths will injure that other person and are better off not telling anything. In this case, you will be protecting that person from a painful feeling and it's ok. Often, "that" person is some…
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Step Eight of the 12 Steps: We Made a List of All Persons We Had Wronged, and Became Willing to Make Amends to Them All - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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In every relationship, is terrifying to think that everything got broken because of our misbehavior, and sometimes their faults. there are always a few stubbornly proud people who consider an impatient word or neglected thank-you fair cause to snub someone for life. Chances are, if your substance abuse problem has lasted any length of time, you’ll …
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Step Seven of the 12 Steps: We Humbly Asked God to Remove Our Shortcomings - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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The keyword is "Humbly". Humility may not be assured of an easy route, but it believes in a successful finish. Ask God to help us accept full responsibility for our mistakes. To forgive others and reach others to be forgiven for anything we did wrong when we were diving into our addictions and we didn't see the harm we caused. The change in ourselv…
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Step Six of the 12 Steps: We Were Entirely Ready to Have God Remove All These Defects of Character - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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Temptations will come when you feel you're "ready: to restore and heal. Having your defects completely removed is an entire long life process. People's cravings to fall and come back to previous addictions will always be around the corner. Even though God will empower you to give you strength, friends and family will support and advise you, and pro…
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Step Five of the 12 Steps: We Admitted to God, to Ourselves, and to Another Human Being the Exact Nature of Our Wrongs - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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One Step of the 12 steps is to admit to ourselves our own wrongdoings. However, As seen in other Steps, just admitting won't make your way to recover and if it does it will be a harder process. There 4 key points that we will focus on, after admitting to ourselves, we'll admit to God, to others, and we will confess the nature of our wrongs. This an…
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Step Four of the 12 Steps: We Made a Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory of Ourselves - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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The moral inventory during Step Four of the 12 Steps is not intended as a beat-yourself-up or put-yourself-down exercise. Our goal is to create an outline for participants. People who follow their own inner leading are far less likely to have substance abuse problems than are those who let others plan their lives for them; so you’ll find it far eas…
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Step Three of the 12 Steps: We Made a Decision to Turn Our Will and Lives Over to the Care of God, as We Understood Him - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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"Let go and let God" during step 3 of the 12 steps. Having a relationship with God won't necessarily mean sitting back and relax while it happens. But it means that we admit that are things that fall out of our control. We can turn our will and lives over to the care of God and at the same time take full responsibility for our obligations on our wa…
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Step Two of the 12 Steps: We Came to Believe That a Power Greater Than Ourselves Could Restore Us to Sanity - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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Even though the road to sobriety is a long hard walk by any method, there’s a freeing aspect in recognizing your Higher Power as the source of help. Your own capabilities are not the limit of your resources. Your failures are not the death of your hope. In this Step, our goal is that you find that outside help that will help you walk through that t…
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Step One of the 12 Steps: We Admitted That We Were Powerless Over Our Addiction and That Our Lives Had Become Unmanageable - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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It’s worth noting that admitting “I am powerless and my life is unmanageable” is hard to say not only because it threatens to tear from us a habit that’s become a favorite coping strategy and an old friend. The admission strikes a hard blow at our pride, the inherent craving to be capable of perfecting ourselves. Admitting that at this moment we ha…
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Welcome to Kemah Palms Recovery, a place where life begins again. At Kemah Palms Recovery, we offer a full continuum of care. Services range from detox to residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and peer support. Our facility sits on a beautiful 6-acre oasis with a true home away from home feel. While in our full med…
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Psychological Effects of the COVID 19 Pandemic in Individuals & Families. Addiction Treatment - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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Kemah Palms Recovery is an adult substance abuse facility located southeast of Houston, Tx. We offer all levels of care, including a full medical detox, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and peer support. We treat all types of substance abuse, including but not limited to alcohol abuse, heroin addiction, cocain…
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Continuing Education Series on HIV and Intravenous Drug Use - Kemah Palms Recovery Kemah, Texas 77565
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Some of the most common IV drugs used are heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and ketamine. In southern and western regions, there is a higher use of stimulants. In the Midwest and Northeast, they use heroin and other opioids primarily. The most commonly injected drugs in Texas are heroin, speedballs (heroin/cocaine), and cocaine. IV drug use increas…
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Motivational Interventions In Substance Use Disorder Treatment - Kemah Palms Recovery Houston, TX 77565
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Why motivation, you might ask? Here are a few essential components to consider. Motivation is key to change; motivation can be changed. Motivation is evidence-based and relationship-focused. Motivation access existing strengths and has an emphasis on self-determination. The Transtheoretical Model… The Stages of Change Model focuses on decision maki…
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Alcohol abuse can be destructive in nature. It can ruin relationships and lead to serious health complications. If you or a loved one is addicted, it is crucial that you’re reaching out for help. Getting the right rehabilitation facility will be the first step to recovery. You don’t have to go through the trouble when you can reach out to Kemah Pal…
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It is easy to feel lonely and isolated in your quest to seek treatment for an addiction problem. Getting the right addiction center will be the first step in the recovery process. Ultimately, you’d want to work with a rehabilitation center that can help in behavioral transformation. That is why you should be reaching out to Kemah Palms Recovery if …
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If a loved one is trying to recover from addiction, the focus will be on getting the best addiction center. This will prove challenging when going through the process for the first time. The first thing you’ll want to make sure of is that you’re getting a facility with a proven track record of helping patients recover. You don’t have to go through …
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What are the key qualities you look for in a rehab facility? This is a question that you’re likely to ask yourself when you or a loved one is looking for help. One thing that is worth noting is that addiction is a disease and there is nothing wrong with seeking treatment. It is therefore crucial that you’re getting an addiction program that will he…
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It is crucial that you’re seeking treatment when suffering from addiction. There is a stigma associated with substance abuse which makes it hard for people to reach out for help. If you or a loved one is trying to recover from addiction, the first step will be to get the right rehab facility. Kemah Palms Recovery comes highly recommended if you’re …
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Addiction is a disease like any other and there is no reason why one should be ashamed of seeking help. Getting the right addiction treatment could prove challenging if you don’t know where to start or how to go about the process. That is why it is crucial that you’re doing due diligence on the different programs and facilities available. You can s…
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If you’re to fully recover from addiction, you’ll need to identify the triggers. This is what a good addiction recovery program should address. That is why you shouldn’t be settling for just any rehab facility. Kemah Palms Recovery comes highly recommended if you’re searching for a Kemah rehab center. We take great pride in providing the highest qu…
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Getting quality addiction treatment will make a big difference in the recovery process. Most people relapse because of the ineffectiveness of addiction treatment programs. That is why it is recommended that you’re taking your time when researching the rehab facility. Kemah Palms Recovery comes highly recommended if you’re searching for a detox cent…
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Are you searching for a rehab facility in Houston? You might be trying to recover from addiction and would want to get the right program to help with individual challenges that you’re battling. There is no one size fits all for the addiction recovery program. Ideally, you’d want to look for a facility that provides individualized therapies. Kemah P…
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Addiction isn’t something that should be taken lightly. The signs might not be that obvious to some people but the repercussions could be far-reaching. If you or a loved one is suffering from substance abuse, it is imperative that you’re reaching out for help. Kemah Palms Recovery comes highly recommended if you’re looking for a Houston drug rehab …
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Just a quick lil talk about some stuff basketball and streaming movies unsuccessfully
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Recreational relapse and recovery talk
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Quick lil update about what’s going on
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Discussing an Lincoln and Weezer
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Morning talks of recovery And detox
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Discuss the trials and tribulations of recovery
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