Scott DeLuzio: [00:00:00] Thanks for tuning in to the Drive On Podcast where we are focused on giving hope and strength to the entire military community. Whether you’re a veteran, active duty, guard, reserve, or a family member, this podcast will share inspirational stories and resources that are useful to you. I’m your host, Scott DeLuzio, and now let’s get on with the show.

Scott DeLuzio: Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Drive On Podcast. Today my guest is Brian Newnan. And Brian is here to dis discuss the Sinclair method and how it works to help those who are seeking help dealing with problematic drinking. So welcome to the show, Brian. I’m really glad to have you here. Yeah.

Brian Noonan: Yeah. Thanks Scott. It’s thanks for having me on and yeah, I’m gonna talk about the Sinclair method and how to drink less.

Scott DeLuzio: Yeah, absolutely. So, for the listeners out there who may not be familiar with you, just could you give us a little background on, on who you are and what you do?

Brian Noonan: Well, I am a psychiatric nurse [00:01:00] practitioner which means actually different things in different states. I think most states now it means that you’re capable of independent practice including prescribing privileges and in other states they’re they function more kind of like a physician assistant or something like that, where they’re.

Brian Noonan: Is some type of collaboration with a physician. In terms of diagnosing, in terms of prescribing medications I’m licensed in about 15 states. All of the states that I’m licensed in, I am independent practicing independently. So I provide psychiatric general psychiatric services to adults.

Brian Noonan: So, usually that is depression, anxiety A D H D sleep problems, those types of things. So that. Was kind of the foundation of my practice. After graduating from Vanderbilt to university in 2007 about five years ago five or six years ago I started practicing. I became aware of the Sinclair Method for alcohol use disorder.

Brian Noonan: [00:02:00] and it was so, impressive to me and so remarkable that it didn’t take very long to realize that this was really kind of a kind of a completely different way to think about the problem of drinking. And you know, and basically very quickly it became, Focus of my practice. And in fact kind of really formed the basis of telehealth which is really of course it’s common now because of the pandemic.

Brian Noonan: But back in 2017, 18 you really had to explain to people what it was. And, you know, there were kind of even concerns about having a healthcare delivered by video. But what kind of prompted it was. I was based in Seattle and kind of, I guess through word of mouth and so forth that people started actually driving up from Portland or from Spokane or from other places around the country.

Brian Noonan: And we were ha having inquiries from. Other places. And so that kind of prompted the idea that you know, I should have a license in Oregon and do telehealth so people don’t have to drive here. And then it was, you know, Idaho and Colorado and Arizona. And then most the states out west And and since [00:03:00] that time I’ve seen thousands of people.

Brian Noonan: I started the the company sinclair method.org. And we have a team of providers now. We serve about 80% of the United States. And it’s you know, it’s kind of every day we’re just kind of more and more convinced of kind of really the really tru, tru...