01: Introducing the Addicted Mind Podcast - My Mission to Help
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the “Addicted Mind” Podcast hosted by Duane Osterlind. Duane is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist who is passionate about helping people overcome addiction. Through years of experience and witnessing the real life change brought about by modern counseling practices, Duane developed a passion for the process. That passion led him to begin the “Addicted Mind” Podcast, built on what he thinks are the most meaningful aspects of beating addiction.
- Research: what is the current evidence about addiction treatment? What brain processes can we use to overcome addiction?
- Treatment: In what ways are we treating addiction? What’s working? What might not be working?
- Recovery: What does it look like for someone to overcome addiction?
Along the way, experience how so many people have been able to create a life that is meaningful to them. Addiction can be beaten. Let’s learn how.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's Dwayne Austerland and this is the Addicted Mind podcast. Welcome to episode |
| 0:08.1 | zero. Today, I'm just going to talk a little bit about myself and why I'm making this podcast |
| 0:14.8 | and what I hope it's going to become. First off, my name is Dwayne Austerland. I'm a licensed |
| 0:19.0 | marriage and family therapist, and I've been |
| 0:21.8 | working in the addiction field for over, gosh, 15 years at this point. So part of that experience |
| 0:28.5 | has led me to this place where I've wanted to really be able to bring my knowledge to people. |
| 0:35.7 | And also, I have a lot of connections to other people who have a |
| 0:40.5 | lot of knowledge. And I want to be able to share that with everybody in a way that they can |
| 0:44.7 | listen to it and get it and get help or find help. I want to be able to help clinicians. |
| 0:50.3 | I want to be able to help people who are struggling with addiction. Addiction is something |
| 0:53.8 | that really devastates many people around the world. I want to be able to help people who are struggling with addiction. Addiction is something that |
| 0:54.2 | really devastates many people around the world. And it's a, you know, in my opinion, it's a major |
| 1:01.7 | health crisis. And by getting good information and reliable information out there, I'll be able |
| 1:07.9 | to help a lot of different people. So that's why I started to do this podcast. |
| 1:13.9 | You know, a little bit of my story. When I was younger, about 17, I did end up in a drug rehab. |
| 1:22.8 | And, you know, I was struggling a lot with like depression and and other other issues and was using |
| 1:29.3 | alcohol and drugs to cope with that and didn't know how to get out of it. And that was a place |
| 1:34.1 | that really ended up helping me quite a bit. And I feel very, very lucky that I was able to, |
| 1:41.1 | you know, get that and get that help. So it's kind of exciting in that way. And I want to be able to, you know, get that and get that help. |
| 1:46.5 | So it's kind of exciting in that way. |
| 1:49.1 | And I want to be able to share that with everybody else. |
| 1:50.5 | So that's one of the reasons. |
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