Safe Recovery

Monica RIchardson and Wendy McEntyre will discuss the rotten rehab Industry and take some calls from around the USA> JarrodsLaw.Org was established to create awareness of dangers those facing addiction face and to pave the way for real change in providing oversight and accountability in the addiction treatment industry and safe sober living homes. https://jarrodslaw.org/, JarrodsLaw is currently working with members of the United States Congress through pending legislation, HR 4684, Ensuring Access  to Quality Sober Living Act of 2018, which will direct the United States Department of Health and Human Services to implement fail safes in sober living homes where there is no regulation or oversight.  Sober living homes should be required to report deaths to the DHCS in the state where the deaths occur.JarrodsLaw was founded after my 23 year old son Jarrod died a sober-living home called “The Safe House”. I was determined to find out how and why he died. During that journey I discovered that there is no oversi

10 top questions to ask when you or a loved one goes to inpatient rehab and sober living.  Wendy McEntyre Public Safety Advocate Facebook.com/Wendy.McEntyre.5 www.JarrodsLaw.Org and my dear friend will join Monica RIchardson for a 30 min show on questions to ask when deciding on a rehab - IOP or Sober Living. We will break down what is Sober Living - IOP Inpatinet and What the heck is a non medical detox and who regualtes these places - or better yet - who doesnt regualte them - and why not? Over drug testing is a scam .

Join host -Monica Richardson  to discuss how to deprogram from AA and its thinking- From Chapter 5 from the Big Book of AA, the preamble, and the 12 traditions which are read at every meeting. Over and over again you listen to something that was written by one man in 1935- published in 1939. There were only 100 members. So why in 2019 are the same things read as if they are gospel? Are the things read the truth? Why do people just accept what is read as fact- when its not. Even the Catholic Church and Buddhism has updated their books over the past 50 years. Why doesn't AA ? Does AA think they are that special? Join us for a deep discussion about the how and whys of the AA Big Book readings. Monica Richardson a long time member left AA after 36 years in May of 2011. She knows how to deprogram.

Jim Breslo creator of The Hidden Truth Show joins Monica Richardson - host, creator of Podcast Safe Recovery and Filmmaker of The 13th Step discuss Jim's show on his deep dives into AA, The Las Vegas shooter, The Transgender Movement  and the failure of the Bullet Train in California  and much more. Jim is a former civil rights attorney, public company president, and radio broadcaster.  He hosted the Jim Breslo Show late nights on KRLA 870 AM in Los Angeles and Casino Talk with Louie Anderson weekends on 97.1 Free FM in Los Angeles. Currently, he is host of the Hidden Truth Show and founder of RealKast, a new media company.  He has appeared as a legal expert on CNN, Fox, CRTV, KNX, KABC, KFI, and KRLA.   He recently gained acclaim for landing the first ever sit down interviews with Bruce Paddock, brother of the Las Vegas shooter, and Sophia Hutchins, the transgender partner of Caitlyn Jenner, on his Hidden Truth Show. He was a partner at the international law firm Seyfarth Shaw, defending companies and indi

A show about the Addiction Treatment Industry- facts about how dangerous most  rehabs and sober livings can be - They are engaged in  the body brokering, illegal drug testing, insurance fraud and much more. With expert Danielle and host Monica Richardson we cover the basics in part 1.

Every day in California someone checks into a Sober Living. Some think they are going to get "treatment" . Some know all that is happening there is a bed and a roof over ones head. But if you are a vulnerable man or woman , some darker trades are happening below the surface. Sex Exploitation, trading sex for rent, and abusing power of AA "time" . Both Straight and gay persons are effected.  Join Monica RIchardson and Patrick Gavin Church for an indepth one hour interview.

In 2010, with seven years of struggle-free sobriety, Teresa knew that the traditional path of getting and living sober was not helping enough people. She auditioned for the Oprah Winfrey Network to create a show traveling the country to learn and share how others got and lived in recovery without twelve steps and alcoholics anonymous. Oprah didn’t call, but that didn’t stop her. Teresa had hopped on her pink cloud and rode out of the rooms of alcoholics anonymous to save her sobriety and knew there had to be something she could do to help others. In 2012, she founded Pink Cloud Coaching and started promoting, advocating, and coaching women to break free from the need to misuse alcohol without identifying as an alcoholic and become inspired to go after life-sober instead. She has since published Wholly Sober – How I Stopped Thinking About Drinking and Started Loving My Life and ready to release her second book, The Primed Drinker in which she explores the idea that the current path of recovery is crea

Part 2 of rehab series on what to look for when sending a loved one to rehab or going there yourself.Daniel and Monica Richardson explore the pitfalls and dangers of 98 % of all rehab in the USA , and the UK . Make sure the rehab  is in a Commercial Zoned location .  Has a Doctor and nurse on location 24/7 if you need a detox from alcohol or Benzos.  ASK if it is based on 12 step or AA based. Stay away from AA / 12 step based rehabs. AA is based on 1935 religious conversion ideology. ASK FOR SMART RECOVERY, MAT and HARM Reduction  with CBT and Trained PhD's or MFCC so that you and your loved ones are treated by professionals and not ex addicts .

Maia Szalavitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, which is widely recognized as an important advance in thinking about the nature of addiction and how to cope with it, personally and politically. Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids was the first to expose the damage caused by the “tough love” business that dominates adolescent addiction treatment. She has written for numerous publications from High Times to the New York Times, including TIME, the Washington Post, the Guardian, VICE, Scientific American, and the Atlantic— and she is author or co-author of five other books. With Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, she co-wrote the classic work on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and also Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential— And Endangered. She has won awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Drug Policy Alliance, the American Psychological Association and the Ame

A  one hour show  with Monica Richardson and ex AA members calling in to tell us how and why they left. How were they treated. Why did they leave. Did they lose some freinds? Is life Better. Do we drink or not drink now. How can we change rehab riddled with 12 step "ism". How can we get Science and MAT to help those addicted and get religious ideolgy from 1935 out of treatment in america.  How can we get Hollywood to tell a non AA addiction story?

Join Host and Filmmaker Monica Richardson for a one hour show . Monica and an ex stepper Steve will talk about what  its like to leave AA after decades. 

Todd is a graduate of the Film program at Full Sail University. While in school he found his niche in editing and post production. He currently works in New York City as a professional editor – working on projects that range from advertisements, music videos, short films and documentaries. The Last Stop is his first journey into writing, producing and directing a feature length documentary. The inspiration for the film came from his own experiences as a teenager, and as a graduate of the Élan program. Mark Babitz Growing up in the 70's, Mark Babitz faced abuse and neglect from his adopted family in Chicago, after numerous run ins with the law an Illinois court placed him in the Elan treatment center in Parsonsfield, Maine. Mark went on to form The Core Campaign Group with Matt Hoffman and a few other Elan alumni in 2009. Mark is on the Maines Missing Children alliance and The Maine COld Cases Board Of Directors. He works closely with other survivors groups including The Straight Inc Survivors, Circle S  Ranch

A one hour show about the history of AA and Hollywood. Marty Mann's mission to get everyone to try AA used her connections at high end Magazines where her lover worked. This connection led to the famous Jack Alexander article in The Saturday Evening Post, which gave AA its first big growth spurt. But deep inside Hollywood, inside their bubble, we have seen too many great talents die - or commit suicide. From Robbin Williams, to Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Corey Montheith and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, these actors and singers may have wanted another way to cope. Maybe some wanted to drink a drink once in a while. But AA is heavily embedded in Socal - how deep does it really go. Join us for an indepth look.  

A group of activists both current and ex AA members are trying to stop all court ordering to AA meetings. This is a known violation of our 1st Amendment rights.  Pilots, Nurses and Doctors are forced to go to AA, AA rehabs and made to believe in the AA ideology against their will. Join us for a one hour show discussing the intense cause and effect of this practice happening all across the United States.

A one hour show to explore how and why AA got SO big- so ingrained in America, Media, Medicine - or not. How Marty Mann one of the first successful AA women, single handidly moved AA into some of the Biggest Magazines of her time (1940's)  How Marty Mann, a HIgh Society Woman Helped Bill Wilson meet the biggest players in American Business. How our first Drug Czar Harry Amngslinger- Arressted over 250,000 for writing scripts for heroin which was legal at the time.Harry Jacob Anslinger (May 20, 1892 – November 14, 1975) was a United States government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He was a supporter of prohibition and the criminalization of drugs, and played a pivotal role in cannabis prohibition.     John D. Rockefeller helped Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson-by giving him $5,000 to print the First run of The Big Book. Not such a small giflt as one might think. More Facts about Rockefeller: As kerosene and gasoline grew in i

Join Monica Richardson for a one hour show with Podcaster, Addiction Coach, Behavioral Specialist,  Zach Rhoads from Vermont. Talking Alternatives to AA. Zach Rhoads is a human behavior specialist, addiction coach, and science writer with a focus on addiction and mental health. He is currently the host of the Young Justice Podcast-- a show about human development and addiction. His new show, The Social Exchange", will cover even more terrain, like social psychology, politics, neuroscience, and-- as always-- addiction and recovery. The Social Exchange will begin in January 2018. _________________________________________________________________  

This is a  30 minute show to discuss the problem of sexual harassment in AA, its meetings and culture . How and why it has been swept under the rug for so many decades. How we can expose this. How can we change this. Tune in for one more show with filmmaker activist for safety, Monica Richardson. Watching the film on AMAZON and VIMEO.

Join me for a short show about how all this is unraveling and how it can help this story I have been working on to expose the Sexual predators in AA since 2009. Monica Richardson. The Make AA Safer movement. The Make AA Safer Workshops I started in April 2010.  My Film The 13th Step was the beginning. It was my story and many other stories documented over 5 years. The emails never stop. The rapes. The Assualts, The 13 Stepping, which is a pure form of sexual harassment. Abuse of POWER, Abuse of preying on victims when they are at their weakest.

This is a quick short show to hopefully make you laugh!  Host Monica Richardson does a quick show with genius Voice Over Actor  Kevin Michael Richardson- you have to guess who. I have wanted to do this for a while. Enjoy! Voices of Cleveland Jr, American Dad Principal Lewis, Guest Stars on The Simpsons, Static Shock, TMNT, BLAZE, Lilo and Stitch, How I Met Your Mother- Guest star, Knight of Prosperity- regular, LIKE FAMILY - Star, many  more shows.

Join Host Monica Richardson with guests Steven Slate  and Mark Sheeren for a  "live" interview to discuss the opiate problem in the US and what we can do to improve things by helping the person and their families. Steven Slate is an expert in the field of Addiction, and has currently just finished writing a book called The FREEDOM Model. Mark Sheeren co founder of St Judes Retreats.