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October 15th 2014: Living with Alzheimer's & The New Face of Heroin

Kathryn interviews award-winning investigative reporter Greg O’Brien, author of “On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s”. Without a cure, Alzheimer’s is expected to exceed heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death in the next 15 years. Diagnosed at 59 with Early-Onset Alzheimer’s, O’Brien has written an illuminating, naked and honest account of living with the disease, not dying with it. In his memoir, On Pluto he speaks candidly about what it’s like to lose your mind and to see slices of your identity slipping away.

Kathryn also interviews Alex Zaphiris MD, MS, creat

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Greg O’Brien

Greg O’Brien has more than 40 years of newspaper and magazine experience as a writer, editor, investigative reporter, and publisher. Over the years, he has contributed to, among other publications, the Associated Press, UPI, USA Today, Huffington Post, Arizona Republic, Boston Herald American, Boston Metro, New York Metro, Philadelphia Metro

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Alex Zaphiris

Dr. Alex Zaphiris knows how to help you heal your brain if you have used opiates and need help. She has a website called Recovery Supestar, an innovative online program for people recovering from opiate use. She first introduced the Recovery Superstar concept in 2011, because she saw that when her patients recovering from opiate addiction learned how to hack their brains, they gained more control of their lives.

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https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1444/the-kathryn-zox-show 19/04/2024 04:00 19/04/2024 05:00 The Kathryn Zox Show https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1444/the-kathryn-zox-show Kathryn interviews award-winning investigative reporter Greg O’Brien, author of “On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s”. Without a cure, Alzheimer’s is expected to exceed heart disease and cancer as the leading cause of death in the next 15 years. Diagnosed at 59 with Early-Onset Alzheimer’s, O’Brien has written an illuminating, naked and honest account of living with the disease, not dying with it. In his memoir, On Pluto he speaks candidly about what it’s like to lose your mind and to see slices of your identity slipping away.

Kathryn also interviews Alex Zaphiris MD, MS, creator of RecoverySuperstar.com. Drug overdoses have tripled in the U.S. over the past three. The new face of heroin addiction is young, white and suburban with 75% of users saying they first started not with heroin but with prescription opioids like OxyContin. Dr. Zaphiris specializes in opiate recovery and uses a neuroscience approach to working with drug addicts through her program Recovery Superstar. VoiceAmerica | Talk Radio | Online Talk Radio studio@voiceamerica.com false DD/MM/YYYY

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