The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society
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The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society
Listen to 15-20 minute long interviews of experts on various topics related to mental and general health. The topics will be continuously expanded. The interviews are designed for both professionals and non-professionals. Topics range from climate change issues and the basis of new medication resear...
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Fentanyl - A Real Discussion
Kellen Russoniello, J.D., Public Health Director, Drug Policy Alliance, offers the history and reason for its dangers, the reduction in overdose death...

Understanding, And The New Tool For, Tardive Dyskinesia (TD)
Stuart Isaacson, M.D., neurologist, explains TD, the role of dopamine in psychiatric and then this treatment induced consequential movement disorder,...

Genetic Testing To Help With Medication Choices.
Rachel Earls, Ph.D., outlines the roles, science, and limitations of this powerful clinical tool for the selection of medication. This is a great guid...

Functional Medicine and Psychiatry - A Different and Effective Choice.
Achina Stein, D.O., explains the many advantages when mixing these two concepts. Functional medicine has an extensive approach exploring for other cau...

The Cataract - Concepts and Treatment
Matthew Weiss, M.D., eye surgeon, clarifies the nature of this very common medical condition, the types of replacement lens used, the very significant...

Key Yet Manageable Approaches To Climate Change Realities
Todd Sack, M.D., 15 years ago created the My Green Doctor program as a guide to setting a functional mindset, with easy but essential actions, in resp...

Elderly Substance Abuse – Facts. Reality, Challenges, Successes
Devon Dautrich, Ph.D., treats substance abuse in this age group. It is a candid talk of why these behaviors are new, or merely an extension of prior u...

Substance Abuse: Challenge and Social Policy - A Mexican Perspective
Lisa Sanchez, Executive Director, Mexico Unido Contra Delincuencia (Mexico City), details substance abuse in Mexico, their harm reduction challenges a...

Keeping People in Substance Abuse Treatment
Michael Dennis, Ph.D., reports interesting statistics as he talks about research into how to keep after care people in treatment, the role of reliabl...

The History of Ice Cream
Take a break from the serious. This 1943 radio show, in the production style of the 1940’s, overviews this widely loved food’s history. It’s 14 minute...

Drugs and Medicine - An Interesting 1937 Broadcast.
In 1937, NBC aired this episode of the radio series ‘The World Is Yours.’ It is a theatrical style reporting of the history of several medicines. Inte...

When Music Is Used As Therapy.
Chris Pizzute is a music therapist at the Louis Armstrong Department of Music Therapy Center at the NY City Beth Israel and Mt. Sinai Hospitals. He ex...

Too Many Children Are Unseen Caregivers.
Connie Siskowski, R.N., Ph.D., and a CNN Hero award recipient, works to help the millions of children who go home to be essential caregivers, and who...

A New Tool -- Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS) For Depression.
Ivan Cichowitz, M.D., explains the FDA approved VNS science to treat depression. He outlines the history, process, and theory, that it is used very of...

Climate Change and A The New ‘My Green Life’ Reality
Todd Sack, M.D., without hesitancy, speaks to the needed but daunting challenge of changing individual CO2 footprints, age and generational difference...

Nitty-Gritty Reflections on Effective Pain Management
Jay Kuchera, M.D., pain management, speaks to barriers to proper pain management, the ethical, clinical, political and regulatory domains, medication...

Drug Abuse Issues Within The Black Community
Tommy McGee, psychotherapist, addiction counselor, clergy, and black, takes us on a revealing tour of life in the black communities, how many black pa...

Climate Change Thoughts From ‘Bush Alaska’
Fish biologist Dave Cannon candidly discusses his personal fears and emotions plus his professional responses to climate change, his preceptive ‘bush...

Marijuana: A Realistic Update
Aldo Morales, M.D., psychiatrist and addictionologist, provides from experience a no-nonsense and balanced overview of cannabis use, issues with quali...

Helping Young Children Resist Substance Abuse
Linda Reihs is an educator, author, and substance abuse counselor. She promotes non-drug use with ‘knowing’ and not just ‘saying no’, teaching resilie...

Psilocybin Use in Oregon and Colorado. -- Two different systems
Two different systems for psilocybin use. Wired Magazine posted an excellent podcast, presented here. Many clinical and political concerns. Worth a ca...

Real Experiences - How Policies Help Or Worsen The Substance Abuse Challenge.
Jeff Singer, M.D., senior fellow at the Cato Institute, who gave Congressional testimony, speaks to the fascinating Iron Law of Prohibition issue, the...

The Power Of The Family and Other Systems in Adolescent Drug Abuse Treatment.
John Dyben, Ph.D., with a primarily psychosocial approach to addiction, but also of appropriate medication use, discusses that kids grow up and mature...

Workable Concepts About The Nature of Addiction.
Daryl Shorter, M.D., offers functional and pragmatic contexts of addiction, of what leads to successful remission, the key essentials of biological ve...

Clinical Issues -- Mixing Buprenorphine And Fentanyl
Sarah Kawasaki, M.D,, details mixing buprenorphine and fentanyl. The mere number of fentanyl overdoses, be it knowing or not knowing fentanyl was cons...

LGBTQ+ And The Hospice Experience
Kimberly Aquaviva, Ph.D., M.S.W., begins with her family experiences and why they refused hospice care for her partner. She then gives a overview of c...

Stigma -- Cause and Effect
Heather Howard., PhD, MSW,speaks to her study of how to address stigma, from those who express it to those who receive it. She talks to how this can i...

Dextromethorphan - An Old Medication With A New Psychiatric Role
This old medication is finding a place in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. This is an overview of it's history and current use, especially now...

Slavery And Its Ongoing Psychosocial Legacy
Benjamin Bowser, Ph.D., sociologist, gives the legacy’s history, that it still remains a very potent contributor to racism, of the cultural based post...

Psychotherapy - How To Frame It, How To Use It
Stefan Pasternak, M.D., on how the therapist-patient relationship is the cornerstone of psychotherapy, and about the challenges of developing a goal f...

Learn From The Past #3 - These Wires Carry Words!
These Wires Carry Words! - Broadcast on July 1, 1946, by Advances in Research, this 15 minute radio piece is an excellent, fluid and valuable historic...

Learn From The Past #2 - Nikola Tesla’s 1937 Predictions
From the February 1937 Liberty Magazine interview, as told to George Viereck, the distinctive inventor accurately predicts much of our current world,...

Learn From The Past #1 - Our Water. Its Role, Its Supply, And Our Needs
A 14 minute audio from the National Association of Manufacturer’s 1950’s educational and advocacy piece of the then appreciations and concerns with us...

Ketamine -- A Detailed Overview
Rakesh Jain, M.D., gives its history, how it works, why it is so different and its enticing future, the roles of glutamate and GABA, nasal versus intr...

Monkeypox
Larry Bush, M.D., infectious disease specialist, details the history of this virus, its characteristics, hosts and vectors, the already existing treat...

Keeping The Healers Healthy
For Doctor’s Day, 2022, at the West Palm Beach VA Hospital, psychiatrist Abbey Strauss spoke that physicians must accept they are also regular people...

Climate Change Questions That Psychiatrists Need To Ask Both Themselves and Their Patients
*Climate Change Questions That Psychiatrists Need To Ask Both Themselves and Their Patients - Psychiatrists Beth Hasse and David Pollack pose such que...

Might Addiction Not Be A Disease?
Carl Fisher, M.D, psychiatrist at Columbia University, argues that ‘disease’ is the wrong concept as he outlines the urge leading to addictive behavio...

Life With One’s Own Adult Children Who Suffer Mental Illness
Maria, using only her first name, candidly shares her feelings and life being the parent of the adult mentally ill. She discusses the process of learn...

Old But Still True. On Addiction.
Former US Drug Czar Robert DuPont, M.D., in 1997, outlines the theories of all addictions, what it does to the brain, the roles of pleasure, honesty,...