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Thriving with Addiction with Dr. Jonathan Avery

Thriving with Addiction with Dr. Jonathan Avery

By: Dr. Jonathan Avery
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Thriving with Addiction is a podcast about addiction, recovery, and mental health hosted by addiction psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Avery. Through conversations with leading experts, people in recovery, families affected by addiction, and clinicians on the front lines, the show explores how individuals and families can better understand addiction and move toward lasting healing.


Topics include addiction and recovery, mental health, the brain and behavior, treatment and healing, the impact of addiction on families, and the evolving science of recovery and wellbeing.


Through his podcast, writing, and clinical work, Dr. Avery helps individuals struggling with substances, their families, and the clinicians who care for them move toward hope and healing.


Dr. Jonathan Avery is the Vice Chair for Addiction Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Medical Director of the NBA’s Anti-Drug Program. His work focuses on improving how healthcare professionals, patients, and families understand substance use disorders and respond with effective treatment, compassion, and evidence-based care.


His expertise has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, and on Next Question with Katie Couric. His upcoming book, Thriving with Addiction: A New Roadmap for Lasting Recovery and Health (Prometheus Books, Fall 2026), is now available for preorder.

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Episodes
  • When Screen Time Becomes Addiction with Kaitlyn Regehr
    Jun 2 2026

    Dr Kaitlyn Regehr is an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at University College London, whose research is focused on digital and AI literacy. She has informed legislation on online safety, most recently feeding into the Online Safety Act and she has provided consultation in the House of Lords, and to Members of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police, The Children’s Commissioner, The Scottish Government and Prevent. Dr Regehr is committed to the public dissemination of algorithmic and AI literacy through broadcasting and writing. She has been interviewed by Oprah Winfrey for the Oprah Podcast and has appeared across a spectrum of US Media including CNN and USA Today. More locally, she is a regular contributor on ITV’s This Morning, BBC News, The Today Programme, BBC Women’s Hour, BBC Bitesize and as an Op-Ed writer for The Guardian. Dr Regehr is also the author of the international bestseller, Smartphone Nation.

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    41 mins
  • Rise, Recover, Thrive: How Scott Strode Is Redefining Addiction Recovery
    May 25 2026

    Scott Strode is the founder of The Phoenix, a national sober active community that helps people recover from addiction through fitness, connection, and purpose. After struggling with alcohol and cocaine use in early adulthood, Scott got sober in 1997 and discovered that physical challenge and community were essential to his recovery. In 2006, he founded The Phoenix in Boulder, Colorado, creating a space where people in recovery could rebuild their lives together through movement and belonging. His memoir, Rise. Recover. Thrive., tells the story of his recovery and the movement he built to help others heal and thrive.

    https://thephoenix.org/

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    32 mins
  • Can Ozempic Treat Addiction? GLP-1s and the Future of Medicine
    May 19 2026

    Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P., is a physician and associate professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he covers medicine, health care, and politics. He serves as Director of the Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership and Associate Director of the Cornell Health Policy Center. His research on value-based care, health care consolidation, and medical innovation has been published in JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine. He earned his M.D. from Yale, trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and received an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School.

    https://www.dhruvkhullar.com/

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    32 mins
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