This is episode 1,757.

Welcome back.

We are midweek through our series

on how to manage addiction and in today's episode I have a special treat

for you all week long you have been discovering all about how to manage addiction, how to avoid addiction, addiction, and what to do if a loved one is struggling

with addiction. The focus has been primarily on building lifestyle habits as well as learning

the danger signs of addiction and how it impacts your brain and how you can recover from addiction.

There is a way out. But what do you do when addiction has gotten out of hand? Who do you call? Who do you reach out to? Whether you are experiencing a situation that is a potential overdose or if a loved one is needing support because they may have gone too far,

whether intentionally or unintentionally,

and they have overdosed.

They need help.

Who do you call and what happens to them?

So I have a special guest for you who's going to help answer some of those important questions.

This is a powerful interview with an attorney, Kendra Paris. And Kendra Paris is a practicing

attorney out of Orlando, Florida. And state laws vary from state to state and of course, depending

on the country where you live, your laws may be completely different. But I thought I'd give you

a snapshot of what can happen when a loved one is Baker acted?

Or what if you find yourself Baker acted?

The term Baker acted is a statute only for the state of Florida.

I happen to live in Florida and we often hear, oh this person or that person was Baker acted.

And it carries a sense of being really seriously impaired from an addiction or depression, maybe somebody is suicidal, and this has become

a verb that's become pretty prevalent as a slang term that means involuntary

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