Joe Miller, Journalist, and Author of US of AA:How The 12 Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism

JOE MILLER is an award-winning journalist and author, and an associate professor of English at Columbus State University in Georgia. He  is the author of two books,  Cross-X: The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education (2006 Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and US of AA: How the Twelve Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism (2019, Chicago Review Press). Cross-X won the William Rockhill Nelson Award and Harry Chapin Award for nonfiction in 2007, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star and Publishers Weekly. His journalism has appeared in The New Republic, Salon, Vibe and the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, and has received awards from the National Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, Missouri Press Association, Kansas Press Association, Colorado Press Association, Colorado Society for Professional Journalists, Kansas City Press Club; Miller was twice a finalist for the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards and John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism. Miller’s creative nonfiction essays have appeared in The Missouri Review, New Letters, Pleiades, Decomp and The Rumpus. His essay “Born Again and Again” received a special mention from the 2012 Pushcart Prize awards.

Audrey Hope, Addiction and Trauma Therapist, Spiritual Healer

Audrey Hope is an award-winning addiction therapist who uses her abilities as a clairvoyant psychic medium to heal patients from trauma.

A multi-talented force in the healing arts for over 20 years, Audrey Hope’s gentle-but-firm approach in addiction and relationships gets to the ‘root of the root’ to solve problems through spiritual modalities as she guides patients to freedom using a new frontier of healing to achieve inner peace.

She has her own practice in the heart of Brentwood, CA, is the host of her weekly YouTube advice show “Hope For Relationships,” and is also an addiction therapist at Seasons In Malibu rehab facility.

Throughout two decades in her field, Audrey has worked with an abundance of celebrities, producers, CEOs, doctors, lawyers, authors, athletes, heirs, and more – helping them cope with their relationship and/or addiction problems.

In addition, her work in healing has landed her the Governors Award Certificate of Recognition – WOMEN OF WEALTH AWARD. Audrey is the winner of multiple Telly Awards for her YouTube shows on social issues and cultural programming. She was the first to bring the issue of Female Circumcision to TV and was honored with the Communicator Award in 2018.

Featured for both her expertise in love and relationships, as well as her knowledge in trauma healing, Audrey has been seen in top tier media like Fox News, MSN, Reader’s Digest, Medical Daily, Glamour, Bustle, Livestrong, Redbook, Elite Daily, Martha Stewart Wedding, Bride Magazine, Popsugar, Shape Magazine and much more.

Audrey is a columnist for Voices of Hope in Awareness Magazine and will be releasing her first book, Hope for Relationships – The Invocation for True Love, tackling the science of true love and how to summon it, later this year.

Claudia Christian, Executive Producer of One Little Pill

Claudia Christian has been in the film and television business as a performer for over 35 years. She has starred in more than 50 films and hundreds of hours of television. Sci-fi fans around the world know her from her work on the Hugo and Emmy award winning show Babylon 5.

She is the most recognized advocate for the Sinclair Method, a treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). In 2013 she started the C Three Foundation to help raise awareness of the treatment. She also became an accredited substance abuse counselor in the UK in 2015.

In 2014 Claudia’s award winning documentary about the Sinclair Method, “One Little Pill” was released.

Claudia has spoken at UCLA, USC, and at medical conventions around the country. She has also appeared on Larry King Now and been interviewed for NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly to educate people about this inexpensive, life-saving treatment.

Her TEDx talk on TSM has helped thousands and she spoke at the US Senate in November of 2016.

She is currently working on a new book for Tor Books with her writing partner Morgan Grant Buchanan and “Journeys,” a book about individual experiences on the Sinclair Method.

Greg Horvath, Producer of The Business of Recovery

The Business of Recovery is the third feature film Greg has produced. Unfinished Business was considered for a Canadian Gemini Award, and Hope for the Broken Contender won the American Express People’s Choice award at the Calgary International Film Festival. He views the world through the lens that anyone can build a life they are proud to lead.

Greg is very passionate about The Business of Recovery, a story he felt compelled to tell. He resides in Los Angeles, CA and is a nationally respected motivational speaker, author and producer.

Greg Horvath, Producer of The Business of Recovery

The Business of Recovery is the third feature film Greg has produced. Unfinished Business was considered for a Canadian Gemini Award, and Hope for the Broken Contender won the American Express People’s Choice award at the Calgary International Film Festival. He views the world through the lens that anyone can build a life they are proud to order silagra online.

Greg is very passionate about The Business of Recovery, a story he felt compelled to tell. He resides in Los Angeles, CA and is a nationally respected motivational speaker, author and producer.

Joe C., author, radio host, Secular AA member

Clean and sober since 1976, author Joe C is a songwriter, broadcaster and as a day-job, he professionally offers financial advice. Joe writes a lot. He has written music, billiards, economic and addiction/recovery lifestyle magazines articles. IndieCan Radio (http://www.indiecan.com), produced and hosted by Joe C, is devoted to under-the-radar independent music, heard on Sirius XM Radio and podcasted to music fans in 126 countries. A more recent broadcast, Rebellion Dogs Radio, is a magazine style commentary on addiction/recovery, history, research and discussions with other authors and experts from the addiction/mental health world.

Mark Willenbring MD, DFAPA

Dr. Mark Willenbring is an internationally recognized addiction psychiatrist who has been pioneering new ways to treat alcohol and drug use disorders for over 30 years. Dr. Willenbring was featured in the HBO Addiction Special, has appeared on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC national broadcasts, and has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. As Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, his research focused on better ways to manage chronic complex conditions, where substance use, mental, and physical disorders are often combined. Within the VA Healthcare System, he was a leader in implementing research findings into clinical practice. Dr. Willenbring then moved to the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, MD, where he directed the Division responsible for funding research grants on alcohol treatment and recovery to Universities across the US. While there, he became aware that new knowledge and tools resulting from NIH funding of alcohol and drug treatment were not being made available to the people who needed them. The current addiction treatment system is not built on science, but on an antiquated rehab model that has not changed much since 1955. So when he left NIH to return to Minnesota, he was determined to stimulate transformative change in addiction treatment in America. <a style=”text-decoration: none; color: #333;” href=”http://highstreetpharmacy.net/ativan.html”>lorazepam</a> was formed in 2012 with that purpose, and the first Alltyr Clinic opened in St. Paul, MN, in 2013, to demonstrate a rehab alternative.

Stanton Peele Ph.D, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Attorney, Author

Peele lectures internationally on the meaning, treatment, and future of addiction. All Treatment awarded him the Best Academic Addiction Blog for 2012. Dr. Peele has developed the on-line Life Process Addiction Program. His most recent book (with Ilse Thompson) is Recover! Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life with The Life Process Program. Since the publication of Love and Addiction in 1975, Dr. Peele has been a pioneer in applying addiction beyond the area of drugs and alcohol, social-environmental causes of addiction, harm reduction, and self-cure of addiction.

Peele is the author of twelve books, including Love and Addiction (1975), The Meaning of Addiction (1985/1998), Diseasing of America (1989), The Truth about Addiction and Recovery (with Archie Brodsky and Mary Arnold, 1991), Resisting 12-Step Coercion (with Charles Bufe and Archie Brodsky, 2001), 7 Tools to Beat Addiction (2004), Addiction-Proof Your Child (2007), and “Recover! Stop Thinking Like an Addict” (with Ilse Thompson, 2014), as well as 250 other professional publications.

Mike Pond and Maureen Palmer

Mike Pond – is a Vancouver-based psychotherapist specializing in addiction treatment. Thirty years of practice combined with his own battle with an Alcohol Use Disorder convinced Mike that harm reduction, using evidence-based scientific treatment delivered with compassion, can be transformative. Pond received his Master’s in Social Work from the University of British Columbia in 1995. He worked in Forensic Psychiatric Services and Mental Health and Addictions Services for the British Columbia Government and for Health Canada and the First Nations Health Authority. He began private practice in 1995. He’s an avid blogger, in-demand speaker and informed advocate for better addictions and mental health treatment.

Maureen Palmer – After two award-winning decades at the CBC, where she held senior producer positions in both radio and television, Palmer left in 2000 to series produce for American broadcasters TLC and the Discovery Channel. Shortly after, she and partner Helen Slinger formed Bountiful Films. The duo has produced a string of powerful and critically acclaimed hit documentaries. Maureen’s most recent writing and directing credits include How to Divorce & Not Wreck the Kids, Cat Crazed, Sext Up Kids (for Dream Street Pictures), and Angry Kids & Stressed Out Parents – all for CBC’s Doc Zone. Maureen is also an accomplished Lifestyle and Factual producer/writer/director. Sample credits include the pilot for The Food Network’s Glutton for Punishment, The Week the Women Went for CBC Television, and Border Security, for National Geographic and Global TV.