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Recovery Reform endeavors to break the stigma around substance use and explore recovery beyond traditional narratives. Hosted by McCauley Sexton, founder and Executive Director of Recovery Reform and a person with lived and living experience of substance use, and Dr. Taylor Nichols, an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician, the Recovery Reform podcast dives into conversations with people with lived experience, experts in harm reduction and substance use treatment, and leaders in drug policy.
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Signup to Generate a PitchRecovery Reform endeavors to break the stigma around substance use and explore recovery beyond traditional narratives. Hosted by McCauley Sexton, founder and Executive Director of Recovery Reform and a person with lived and living experience of substance use, and Dr.
Recent episodes include "Rachel Shuster on Lived Experience, Addictions Nursing, and Changing the Narrative" (6 November 2025, 60 minutes), "Kirsten - AKA Sobriety Bestie - on Deconstructing AA" (9 October 2025, 64 minutes), and "Mary Beth O'Connor on finding alternative recovery to becoming a Judge" (26 August 2025, 57 minutes).
Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 58 minutes across 27 episodes.
Booking probability for Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy's contact route on record: verified email.
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Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy is a health show with 27 episodes published.
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Episode #26
<p>Rachel Shuster is a registered nurse and a person in recovery from opioid use disorder. As a high-achieving high schooler and college student, she never imagined that she would fall victim to having a substance use...
Episode #25
<p>Kirsten - AKA Sobriety Bestie - last had an alcoholic drink in 2009, then spent over a decade in AA. She left AA in 2020 and began doing the work of unlearning and deconstructing AA dogma, told that she was...
Episode #24
<p>Mary Beth O'Connor is the author of the book "From Junkie to Judge: One Woman’s Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction." She began her recovery from methamphetamine use disorder, abuse, trauma, and anxiety in 1994. She...
Episode #23
<p>Join us for a conversation with Patrick Doyle, LCSW on a conversation breaking down his own evolution in SUD treatment and his approach in coaching people who use drugs and their families to help improve their lives...
Episode #22
<p>Our co-hosts McCauley Sexton and Dr. Taylor Nichols talk about "Kratom" - both the plant and the extracts such as "7-OH" or 7-Hydroxymitragynine - as well as how the active alkaloids function in your body, including...
Episode #21
<p>Co-hosts McCauley Sexton and Dr. Taylor Nichols break down the "continuum of care" in substance use treatment and discuss their experiences from the patient and provider side of the continuum - from interventions to...
Episode #20
<p>Harm reduction is more than "needles and Narcan" and Dee-Dee Stout is the perfect person to talk to about the evolution of harm reduction therapy. <br> <br> Through her own training and her experience as a person who...
Episode #19
<p>Jordan Scott is a person with lived experience with opioid use disorder and powerful harm reduction advocate and person who continues to uses drugs in her recovery. While initially sought recovery from her opioid use...
Episode #18
<p>Stigma: a set of negative attitudes, prejudices, or false or unfair beliefs that a society or group of people hold about specific traits or people. <br> <br> The negative attitudes held against people people who use...
Episode #17
<p>McCauley and Dr. Taylor Nichols review their first year of Recovery Reform, what they have learned and unpacked over this past year, and what they are looking for coming up in the next year. </p> <p> </p> <p>Thank...
Episode #16
<p>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...
Episode #15
<p>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...
Episode #14
<p>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...
Episode #13
<p>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...
Episode #12
<p>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...
Episode #12
<p>Chad Sabora is a former lawyer, a person with lived experience, and a long-time grassroots harm reductionist turned policy maker. He's gone from starting underground start harm reduction organizations, importing and...
Episode #11
<p>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...
Episode #10
<p>Brandi Mac, NP is a person who dropped out of high school and ended up becoming an ICU nurse practitioner. </p> <p>She joins McCauley Sexton and Taylor Nichols, MD on the Recovery Reform podcast to talk about her...
Episode #9
<p>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...
Episode #8
<p>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.</p> <p>Kristina has worked as a coach since...
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