In Recovery
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In Recovery
If you have a heart attack, you go to the hospital. Kid is sick? Call the pediatrician. So why do the rules change when it comes to addiction? When you or a loved one needs immediate help, it’s hard to know where to go or what to do. Start here. Join Dr. Nzinga Harrison, a physician board-certified...
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Introducing: Don’t Listen To Us with Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody
We’re so excited to share a new show from Lemonada Media, Don’t Listen To Us, an advice show for advice-skeptics and wisdom-lovers, hosted by Mandy Pa...
Introducing: Since You Asked
This week we’re popping in your feed to tell you about a new show from Lemonada Media, Since You Asked.
Who doesn’t need advice—and who doesn’t...
Listen Now: Talkaboutable
We’re excited to share a new call-in advice show from Lemonada Media called Talkaboutable. It’s hosted by a child and adolescent psychiatrist and mom...
Listen Now: Uncared For is Back!
In a country that feels more divided than ever, there’s one thing almost everyone agrees on: our healthcare system is broken. From crushing medical de...
Listen to: Un-Addiction
We're dropping in your feed today to share Dr. Nzinga's new show, Un-Addiction. Is addiction hereditary? Can stress or trauma cause addiction? Can I l...
Listen to this: One Congressman’s Battle With Debilitating Anxiety (with Rep. Adam Smith)
In an eye-opening and powerful episode, In The Bubble host Andy Slavitt talks to Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), one of the most powerful members of Congre...
From Bad to Worse: COVID’s Toll on a Top Child Care Center
We are excited to share another Lemonada Media show you will love. It's called No One Is Coming to Save Us and it tackles the American child care cris...
Listen to This: After 1954
The team at In Recovery wanted to share with you a preview of another Lemonada Media series that they know you’ll want to tune in for. The 1954 Suprem...
How Do I Live Presently and Die Gracefully? with Alua Arthur
As a holiday bonus, the team at In Recovery wanted to share one of their favorite podcasts of 2021 with you. New Day from Lemonada Media is a podcas...
Dr. Nzinga Revisits Last Day S1, Ep 6: The Magic Formula
Opioids are killing more people than ever. In 2020, overdose deaths in the U.S. spiked nearly 30% to a record high -- the sharpest annual increase in...
It’s Been 7 Weeks Since Her Overdose
Beth’s daughter Brittany was 14 months sober when she turned 29 and was kicked off her insurance, ending her stint at the one treatment program that a...
From Delta Fear to Vaccine Rage - Your COVID Mental Health Questions Answered
This was supposed to be an episode about languishing –– a mental health term that came into the spotlight in COVID that means feelings of emptiness, s...
I Haven’t Relapsed…Yet
It’s easy to recognize when the people close to us are going through a hard time, but recognizing that in ourselves is a different story. In our final...
When Online Attacks Get Personal
After criticisms on Twitter turned into a mob of personal attacks, Amanda Jetté Knox sunk into one of the deepest spirals of her life. She checked her...
Accepting a Terminal Diagnosis
The best way for Dr. Paul Kalanithi to process his terminal diagnosis was to write a book about accepting death. His wife, Dr. Lucy Kalanithi promised...
Healing Trauma
We’re often taught that trauma is something that happens to us, but psychiatrist Dr. Alauna Curry explains that trauma is something that happens withi...
Is It Time to Leave?
This week Nzinga answers two listener questions about setting boundaries in long-term relationships with partners who are working through addiction. P...
Not Guilty for Reason of Insanity
Not guilty for reason of insanity is a full acquittal of criminal charges. Does that mean it’s a get out of jail free card? Turns out it's much more c...
Chaos is the Drug
What happens after your question is answered on the show? One of our listeners decided to follow up to push back on part of Nzinga’s response. He and...
Raised in Recovery
This week Nzinga catches up with activist and Pod Save the People host DeRay Mckesson and his dad, Calvin. Last year DeRay, his sister TeRay, and Calv...
Can You Be Addicted to Relationships or Fortnite?
In this round of listener questions, one friend asks about serial monogamy and the pattern she sees in her female friends of hanging on to relationshi...
The Truth About Sex Addiction
Often when we hear about sex addiction, it’s used to excuse or justify bad behavior. In the last couple of years we can look to stories like Jeffery T...
The Real Risk Factor for Addiction
During a small retreat, six people in recovery discovered the way their childhood trauma played a part in the addictions they had. The retreat and the...
Ask Me Anything Is Back!
One woman’s family seems to be addicted to chaos, but she’s not sure if that counts as an addiction. Plus, a man is curious about the similarities bet...
The Health Care System Doesn’t Care About Health
What started out as chronic pain for David Smith’s father, ended in a fatal opioid overdose. In the years that followed, David lost a brother and sist...
One Alternative To Policing That Could Work
Representative Leslie Herod knows what it's like to have a family member struggle with addiction and incarceration. But she also knows that this is mo...
Anxiety is the Missing Stage of Grief
Over the last 14 months, everyone in this country has experienced some type of loss. But as a nation, we’re not always great at talking about our grie...
I Spent My 14th Birthday In Rehab (with Georgia Hardstark)
Georgia Hardstark quit meth on her own when she was 14 years old. Today, she thinks about this youthful willpower in her moments of self doubt, which...
Season 2 of In Recovery: Coming Soon
In Recovery Season 2 premieres on 4/26! Let’s face it, 2020 was rough for everyone. Suddenly, we're all in a state of mental recovery. So, join Dr. Nz...
Bonus: A Voicemail from a Ten Year Old
During our second AMA episode, a listener called in concerned about her ten-year-old brother, Oliver, because he couldn’t stop talking about drugs. We...
How Do We Survive the Holidays?
The intersection between addiction and the holidays can be challenging. Even more so when you add a global pandemic into the mix. So Nzinga is ending...
Am I Overreacting?
Alicia called in about her husband's gambling and asked one of the more common questions about uncommon addictions –– is he in denial or am I overreac...
Beauty in the Grit
Air proudly identifies as a Black woman in long term recovery. Today, that’s a source of strength, but that wasn’t always the case -- she says she fel...
Replay: Racism is an Addiction
As we get ready to gather, in person or virtually, for one of our country’s more complicated holidays, we return to an episode about racism in the Uni...
Let's Talk About Meth
Overdose deaths from methamphetamine use have been surging in the US, not unlike opioids. But meth isn’t talked about as much. In this episode, Nzinga...
Ask Me Anything #2
Lately, it seems like we are looking for answers everywhere about everything. Luckily, Nzinga is here to answer more listener questions about all thin...
Everybody Vapes
When Sergio started vaping, it didn’t seem like a big deal. After all, he was surrounded by people vaping and drinking at school. But lately, this cas...
Don’t Read The Comments
Nzinga often talks about how we’re all addicted to something. For Nora McInerny, host of the podcast, Terrible Thanks For Asking, it’s reading the neg...
Nzinga Harrison Recommended Listening: Last Day Season Two
We open Season 2 of Last Day with a tale of two Kevins. One is Sergeant Kevin Briggs, also known as the guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge. The other...
Finding Your Higher Power
Dave from Dopey podcast joins Nzinga to talk about 12 step recovery. Dave recently celebrated five years sober (yay!), which he largely credits to his...