The Right Mind Media Podcast on WUMB, 91.9 UMass Boston
Right Mind Media is an award-winning media group dedicated to addiction, recovery, and mental health awareness. Hosted by Jon Cohan, CADC, and Gabrielle "Abby" Dean, LISCW, MPH, the Right Mind Media podcast finds the top scientists, doctors, specialists, writers, politicians, families and individuals working in the field today to provide the public with a balanced, evidence-based, and unfiltered voice on addiction, recovery and mental health.
A sample selection of episodes is below. For the full podcast library, click here.
Journalist Beth Macy joins us to talk about her new book “Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis”, and to give us an update on what's happened in the fight against the opioid crisis since her previous book, "Dopesick", was released four years ago.
Beth Macy: Raising Lazarus
Carl Erik Fisher, M.D., addiction psychiatrist, bioethics scholar, and author joins us to talk about his new book The Urge: Our History of Addiction, an intellectual and cultural history of addiction, interwoven with his own experiences as an addiction psychiatrist at Columbia and as someone in recovery himself.
Our History of Addiction
Sam Quinones, New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, joins us to talk about his follow-up book The Least of Us, a searing expose of the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair.
Sam Quinones: The Least of Us
Personal stories of addiction and recovery touch us the most and have the greatest potential to heal and educate. Pete C. joins us to share his recovery journey in the twelfth installment of our series "Recovery Stories".
Personal Recovery Story #12
Raina Telgemeier is the author and illustrator of several beloved children's graphic novels including "Smile", "Drama", "Sisters", and "Ghosts". Raina joins us to talk about her book "GUTS", a personal graphic memoir about her struggles as a child with fear and anxiety, and why she encourages children today to talk about their fears.
Guts
Psychologist Kelly McGonigal joins us to talk about her latest book The Joy of Movement, and how physical exercise can be a powerful antidote to the modern epidemics of depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
