Brian Cuban is an attorney, author and mental health awareness and recovery advocate. He is the author of the best-selling book The Addicted Lawyer: Tales of The Bar, Booze Blow & Redemption. He has spoken at conferences, non-profit events,

As a person in long-term recovery and the parent of a young person in recovery, James Wahlberg (Mark and Donnie’s brother) brings a personal understanding of the issue to his 30 years of experience working in the field of substance use disorder.

In 2013, former U.S Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy founded The Kennedy Forum, a non-profit organization whose mission is to lead a national dialogue on transforming mental health and addiction care delivery by uniting mental health advocates,

Dr. Jerome Adams is the 20th Surgeon General of the United States. As the Nation’s Doctor, the Surgeon General’s mission is to advance the health of the American people.  He has created several initiatives to tackle our nation’s most pressing health is...

Carolyn Costin MA, MEd., MFT, CEDS FAED., is a world renowned, highly sought-after eating disorder clinician, author, and international speaker renowned for her expertise, passion and accomplishments.  In her twenties, Carolyn recovered from anorexia,

Michael can remember being shy and fearful his young life, and even as a teenager couldn’t muster up the strength to talk to girls until he took swigs from a bottle of Crown Royal his friend swiped and brought to the school dance.

Joani Gammill is a substance use disorder interventionist who has her own company, Joani The Interventionist, where she has performed hundreds of interventions for 12 years.  She now works full time at Recovery Centers of America facilitating intervent...

Discovering her daughter’s addiction to opioids forced Maureen Cavanagh into the dark work of caring for a child with addiction.  Now, she is the founder of Magnolia New Beginnings, a nonprofit peer-support group for those living with or affected by

Jeffrey Veatch, a news writer at ABC News Radio for 40 plus years, won a national Writers Guild award in 2007 for ABC’s World News This Week.  In September 2008, Veatch’s life took a drastic turn when his 17-year-old son, Justin,

Nancy McCann Vericker is the co-author with her son, JP, of their book, Unchained: Our Family’s Addiction Mess Is Our Message, the true story of JP’s descent into opioid and alcohol addiction, homelessness,