Participants Archive

Dr. Daniel Fleck

Role: Medical Professional

Dr. Daniel Fleck

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Ep. 233 – Crowd Sourced App Helps Build a Community of First Responders
It’s estimated that one hundred and seventy-five people die from opioid overdoses daily in our country. Naloxone can save lives, if there when needed, but the window of time is very short.

Matthew Shaker

Role: Medical Professional

Matthew Shaker

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Ep. 233 – Crowd Sourced App Helps Build a Community of First Responders
It’s estimated that one hundred and seventy-five people die from opioid overdoses daily in our country. Naloxone can save lives, if there when needed, but the window of time is very short.

Joe Rannazzisi

Role: Law Enforcement, Government Official

Joe Rannazzisi

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Ep. 232 – Pharmaceutical Industry Wins with a Little Help from their Friends
In our last episode of this series, we learned how passage of the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act took away the DEA’s most effective diversion control enforcement tool,...
Ep. 231 – “60 Minutes” Whistleblower Shares What Happened When Congress Sided with Industry Over an Agency
When a key member of the government’s legal team went to work for the pharmaceutical industry, the job of diversion control enforcement changed dramatically.
Ep. 230 -Diversion Out of Control: “60 Minutes” Whistleblower, Joe Rannazzisi Shares What Went Wrong
This is the 2nd in our 4 part series with the former head of the Office of Diversion Control for the DEA, Mr. Joseph Rannazzisi. We began this series by talking about the surprisingly candid report...
Ep. 229 – Diversion Out of Control: “60 Minutes” Whistleblower, Joe Rannazzisi Talks About What Went Wrong
On December 19th, 2018, the Energy and Commerce Committee released a long awaited report titled “Red Flags and Warning Signs Ignored: Opioid Distribution and Enforcement Concerns in West Virginia...

Chris McGreal

Role: Author

Chris McGreal

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Ep. 231 – “60 Minutes” Whistleblower Shares What Happened When Congress Sided with Industry Over an Agency
When a key member of the government’s legal team went to work for the pharmaceutical industry, the job of diversion control enforcement changed dramatically.

John Pacenti

Role: Journalist

John Pacenti

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Ep. 228 – Pharmaceutical Company Exposed in Boston: A Conversation with Palm Beach Post Reporters Part 2
We frame today’s podcast with Palm Beach Post reporters, John Pacenti and Pat Beall with a clip from the Insys Therapeutics rap video on the virtues of persuading doctors to prescribe higher dose...

Pat Beall

Role: Journalist

Pat Beall

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Ep. 228 – Pharmaceutical Company Exposed in Boston: A Conversation with Palm Beach Post Reporters Part 2
We frame today’s podcast with Palm Beach Post reporters, John Pacenti and Pat Beall with a clip from the Insys Therapeutics rap video on the virtues of persuading doctors to prescribe higher dose...
Ep. 227 – Landmark Racketeering Case Against Insys Therapeutics Brings Up A Familiar Story
Back in January, the pharmaceutical trial of Insys Therapeutics and company founder, John Kapoor faced charges of racketeering. Allegedly, he and six former sales directors operated a scheme which...

Janine Underwood

Role: Family Member

Janine Underwood

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Ep. 226 – Turning Tragedy into a Triumph: The Roanoke Valley Hope Initiative Story
As Beth Macy’s book “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America” unfolds, we meet many families, community leaders and healthcare providers that were directly impac...

Beth Macy

Role: Author

Beth Macy

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Ep. 226 – Turning Tragedy into a Triumph: The Roanoke Valley Hope Initiative Story
As Beth Macy’s book “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America” unfolds, we meet many families, community leaders and healthcare providers that were directly impac...
Ep. 224 – Dopesick: The Loss of a Son and One Parent’s Search for Answers – Part 5
This is the fifth and final episode of our podcast series on Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and The Drug Company That Addicted America. So far, we have discussed what made the Appalachia region of the...
Ep. 223 – Dopesick: Humanitarian Sister Beth Davies Inspires a Community to Take on a Giant – Part 4
In part four of our five-part “Dopesick” series, we have an extensive conversation with Sister Beth Davies. With the help of Dr. Art Van Zee, the two established a community coalition which lai...
Ep. 222 – Dopesick: Bestselling Author Beth Macy Shares a New Approach to Recovery in Appalachia– Part 3
This is part three of our “Dopesick” podcast series. In parts one and two, we sat down with New York Times writer and bestselling author Beth Macy and discussed what made Appalachia so vulnerab...
Ep. 221 – Dopesick: Bestselling Author Beth Macy’s Story of The Drug Company that Addicted America – Part 2
Journalist Beth Macy is the author of three New York Times-bestselling nonfiction books. Her 2014 Lukas Prize-winning “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local — an...
Ep. 220 – Dopesick: Bestselling Author Beth Macy’s Story of The Drug Company that Addicted America – Part 1
“Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America” is a look into the opioid crisis as it emerged in, bestselling author Beth Macy’s hometown of Roanoke Virginia.

Karen Snyder

Role: Education

Karen Snyder

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Ep. 225 – Improbable Players Change the Conversation on Addiction Using Performance and Discussion
Improbable Players is a collection of touring theater troupes with a powerful message. Forming in Boston, the organization formed in 1984 and is a form of evidence-based prevention education.

Andy Short

Role: Former User, Treatment Professional, Education

Andy Short

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Ep. 225 – Improbable Players Change the Conversation on Addiction Using Performance and Discussion
Improbable Players is a collection of touring theater troupes with a powerful message. Forming in Boston, the organization formed in 1984 and is a form of evidence-based prevention education.

Chris Everett-Hussey

Role: Entertainer

Chris Everett-Hussey

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Ep. 225 – Improbable Players Change the Conversation on Addiction Using Performance and Discussion
Improbable Players is a collection of touring theater troupes with a powerful message. Forming in Boston, the organization formed in 1984 and is a form of evidence-based prevention education.

Dr. Art Van Zee

Role: Medical Professional

Dr. Art Van Zee

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Ep. 223 – Dopesick: Humanitarian Sister Beth Davies Inspires a Community to Take on a Giant – Part 4
In part four of our five-part “Dopesick” series, we have an extensive conversation with Sister Beth Davies. With the help of Dr. Art Van Zee, the two established a community coalition which lai...

Dr. Robert Pack

Role: Medical Professional

Dr. Robert Pack

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Ep. 222 – Dopesick: Bestselling Author Beth Macy Shares a New Approach to Recovery in Appalachia– Part 3
This is part three of our “Dopesick” podcast series. In parts one and two, we sat down with New York Times writer and bestselling author Beth Macy and discussed what made Appalachia so vulnerab...

Dr. Stephen Loyd

Role: Medical Professional, Former User

Dr. Stephen Loyd

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Ep. 222 – Dopesick: Bestselling Author Beth Macy Shares a New Approach to Recovery in Appalachia– Part 3
This is part three of our “Dopesick” podcast series. In parts one and two, we sat down with New York Times writer and bestselling author Beth Macy and discussed what made Appalachia so vulnerab...

Mary Huber

Role: Medical Professional

Mary Huber

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Ep. 219 – Why Opioid Overdose Rates Are Plummeting in Dayton
In 2017, it was recorded that Dayton, OH had one of the highest rates of overdoses in the entire country. By November of last year, Montgomery County Ohio, which is anchored by Dayton had already s...

Evan Hughes

Role: Author

Evan Hughes

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Ep. 218 – Pharmaceutical Company Adopts “Glengarry Glen Ross“ Sales Culture of Purdue Pharma
The author of Dreamland, Sam Quinones, stated in a blog post “The Purdue Pharma company instructional materials pushed salespeople to ‘expand the physician’s definition of the appropriate pat...

Michael S. Russell

Role: Attorney

Michael S. Russell

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Ep. 217 – Removing Legal Barriers to Recovery at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center
In criminal cases, legal assistance is a right. However, there is no right to counsel in civil matters, and most low-income Americans are forced to go it alone without legal representation. It’s...

Jennifer Kinsley

Role: Attorney

Jennifer Kinsley

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Ep. 217 – Removing Legal Barriers to Recovery at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center
In criminal cases, legal assistance is a right. However, there is no right to counsel in civil matters, and most low-income Americans are forced to go it alone without legal representation. It’s...

Dr. Albana Dreshaj

Role: Medical Professional

Dr. Albana Dreshaj

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Ep. 217 – Removing Legal Barriers to Recovery at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center
In criminal cases, legal assistance is a right. However, there is no right to counsel in civil matters, and most low-income Americans are forced to go it alone without legal representation. It’s...

Rebecca Crowder

Role: Community Organizer

Rebecca Crowder

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Ep. 216 – ALTO, Lily’s Place and AnchorED Programs Highlight Supports in Opioid Bill H.R.6 – Part 2
On October 24, 2018, President Trump signed The Support for Patients and Communities Act or H.R.6. into law.
Ep. 151 – Rebecca Crowder, Lily’s Place
Greg interviews Rebecca Crowder, the Executive Director of Lily’s Place. Lily’s Place is a Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) facility that provides observational, therapeutic, and pharmalogica...

Rob Portman

Role: Representative

Rob Portman

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Ep. 216 – ALTO, Lily’s Place and AnchorED Programs Highlight Supports in Opioid Bill H.R.6 – Part 2
On October 24, 2018, President Trump signed The Support for Patients and Communities Act or H.R.6. into law.
Ep. 215 – Everything You Need to Know About Ohio Issue 1
On Tuesday, November 6th Ohio voters will decide Ohio Issue 1, a ballot initiative that would reduce drug possession offenses to misdemeanors, so they’re no longer classified as felonies with har...
Ep. 170 – PART 3: A Cover2 Podcast on the Showtime Docu-Series: “The TRADE” a front row seat to the opioid epidemic
This is the third episode of our five-part series on the Showtime original program “The TRADE,” a docu-series providing a front row seat to the opioid epidemic through the eyes of those most af...
Ep. 78 – How the Government Funds Substance Abuse Programs: Rob Portman, Ohio Senator
Greg interviews Rob Portman, a United States Senator from Cincinnati, Ohio. In September 1996, Senator Portman founded the Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati—now known as PreventionFIRS...

Dr. Mark Rosenberg

Role: Medical Professional

Dr. Mark Rosenberg

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Ep. 216 – ALTO, Lily’s Place and AnchorED Programs Highlight Supports in Opioid Bill H.R.6 – Part 2
On October 24, 2018, President Trump signed The Support for Patients and Communities Act or H.R.6. into law.
Ep. 55 – Alieving Pain Without Opioids: Dr. Mark Rosenberg, ALTO
Greg interviews Dr. Mark Rosenberg, the Chairman of Emergency Medicine and the Medical Director for Population Health at St. Joseph’s Healthcare System in Patterson, New Jersey.

Bishara Addison

Role: Professional

Bishara Addison

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Ep. 215 – Everything You Need to Know About Ohio Issue 1
On Tuesday, November 6th Ohio voters will decide Ohio Issue 1, a ballot initiative that would reduce drug possession offenses to misdemeanors, so they’re no longer classified as felonies with har...
Ep. 211 – Everything You Need to Know About Ohio Issue 1
One of the many issues that voters will be deciding on this fall is Ohio Issue 1. This issue reduces drug possession to a misdemeanor.

Tom Stuber

Role: Treatment Professional

Tom Stuber

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Ep. 215 – Everything You Need to Know About Ohio Issue 1
On Tuesday, November 6th Ohio voters will decide Ohio Issue 1, a ballot initiative that would reduce drug possession offenses to misdemeanors, so they’re no longer classified as felonies with har...
Ep. 211 – Everything You Need to Know About Ohio Issue 1
One of the many issues that voters will be deciding on this fall is Ohio Issue 1. This issue reduces drug possession to a misdemeanor.
Ep. 11 – Fending Off Relapse: Interview with Tom Stuber, LCADA Way
Greg interviews Tom Stuber, president and CEO of LCADA Way Wellness and Recovery. Tom reviews the treatment records of Greg’s son Sam and talks about the process of relapse.

Judge David T. Matia

Role: Court Official

Judge David T. Matia

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Ep. 215 – Everything You Need to Know About Ohio Issue 1
On Tuesday, November 6th Ohio voters will decide Ohio Issue 1, a ballot initiative that would reduce drug possession offenses to misdemeanors, so they’re no longer classified as felonies with har...
Ep. 211 – Everything You Need to Know About Ohio Issue 1
One of the many issues that voters will be deciding on this fall is Ohio Issue 1. This issue reduces drug possession to a misdemeanor.
Episode 3 – Judge David T. Matia, Cuyahoga County Drug Court
In this episode of the Cover2 Resources Podcast, Greg McNeil, Founder and President, interviews Judge David T. Matia. Judge Matia presides over the Cuyahoga County Drug Court, the first of its kind...

Chad Jester

Role: Volunteer, Professional

Chad Jester

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Ep. 214 – Powerful PSA Aims to Stop Community from Living in Denial (Ohio) About Opioid Addiction
Ohio continues to have one of the largest death rates due to overdoses in all the US. Just last year, Franklin County had a 47% increase due to opioid abuse.

Shawn D. Holt

Role: Community Organizer

Shawn D. Holt

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Ep. 214 – Powerful PSA Aims to Stop Community from Living in Denial (Ohio) About Opioid Addiction
Ohio continues to have one of the largest death rates due to overdoses in all the US. Just last year, Franklin County had a 47% increase due to opioid abuse.

Braeden Kelly

Role: Community Organizer, Professional

Braeden Kelly

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Ep. 213 – Analysts Breakdown Historic Opioid Bill H.R.6 in Part 1 of 2 Part Series
Recently, President Trump signed an opioid package into law called H.R.6. Today’s podcast will discuss what this means and will be the first episode of a two-part series that will break down H.R.6.

Jay Ruais

Role: Community Organizer, Professional

Jay Ruais

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Ep. 213 – Analysts Breakdown Historic Opioid Bill H.R.6 in Part 1 of 2 Part Series
Recently, President Trump signed an opioid package into law called H.R.6. Today’s podcast will discuss what this means and will be the first episode of a two-part series that will break down H.R.6.
Ep. 122 – Medicaid Expansion and Healthcare Reform: Lydia Ramsey and Jay Ruais, Healthcare Reform
Greg interviews Lydia Ramsey, a reporter for Business Insider, covering pharmaceutical, biotech industries, and healthcare. He also interviews Jay Ruais, the Chief Operating Officer and Vice Presid...

Ricky Byrd

Role: Former User, Entertainer

Ricky Byrd

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Ep. 212 – Rock Hall Inductee Shares His Story: Clean Getaway
The lifestyle of the music industry has proven deadly for so many people over the years. Wikipedia lists the names of over 100 pop artists who have lost their lives to overdose since the 60s.