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Show Topic: Opioid Addiction – Protect Yourself and Your Family

Co-Hosts:  Judy Gaman, Walter Gaman, Mark Anderson

Guest: Gene Mosely in studio

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Opioid addiction is an epidemic in this country and it can happen to anyone. If you want to stay young and stay healthy, you need to stay informed. That is why we chose to do an entire show dedicated to Opioid addiction and how you can protect yourself and protect your family. We have a special guest in the studio with us today Gene Mosely who shook off the at-risk youth label and became an All-American Collegiate Scholar, Two-Time College Graduate, Certified Teacher, and Certified Behavior Change Specialist who now speaks to crowds around the country on a number of topics, including Opioid addiction.

• Opioids: a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin as well as prescription pain relievers such as oxycodone (OxyContin®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), codeine, morphine, fentanyl, and others.
• Natural Opiates: Natural opiates are from the poppy plant in its purest forms. Some of the more commonly known natural opiates include: Morphine, Codeine, Thebaine, Opium
• Deaths from Opioids has quadrupled since 1999. In 2016 the CDC reported 42,000 deaths
• How it began – 1990s push for doctors to treat pain as the 5th vital sign and pharmaceutical companies were pushing opioids as a non-addictive solution for pain.
• According to the CDC, by 2015 there were enough prescriptions for opioids to medicate every single American for at least 3 weeks.
• 80% of Americans who now use heroin said they started with an opioid prescription

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When we come back, our special in studio guest, Gene Mosley will take you through what you need to know to protect yourself and your family from Opioids.

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Today's show is all about opioid addiction and how you can protect yourself. Coming up we will be taking with Gene Mosley, an expert on opioid addiction and behavior change.

ANDERSON - Immortal minute – 2 min.

• How people become addicted
• How youth get Opioids
• Emotional Withdrawal from Opioids
• How to help prevent youth from getting Opioids
• Reasons youth take Opioids
• Docs – how easy it is for adults to become addicted post-surgery

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This whole hour we have had behavioral change specialist and national speaker, Gene Mosley in the studio with us. Our focus today is opioid addiction and you can protect yourself and your family

• Giving used medications to Police Station
• Purpose of Opioids
• Gene's experience in the Wellness Industry dealing with adults addicted to Opioids.

Open discussion

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