Sober Company (aka Sober Co)

Rehab with Arden O'Connor

Episode Summary

Lacey talks rehabs with Arden O'Connor, an expert in addiction treatment and the founder and CEO of O'Connor Professional Group, a behavior health consulting company. They get into practical questions of how to narrow down your search for a rehab, sketchy red flags to look out for, interventions and sober living homes. Arden also talks about how she was inspired to create her company after her brother Chris' experience in multiple rehabs. Chris is well known from his podcast Dopey which he co-hosted with his rehab buddy Dave for two years before he tragically overdosed and died in July 2018.

Episode Notes

Theme music by Jon Tessier courtesy of Said So Sound

In this episode:

https://oconnorpg.com/

Dopey podcast

Dave from Dopey on Sober Company

ATLAS treatment finder

Werecover (not clinically vetted)

drugfree.org:

https://drugfree.org/article/navigating-the-treatment-system/

Questions to ask treatment facilities

SAMHSA Treatment locator  

Sober Living Home Associations:
https://narronline.org/
http://nationalsoberliving.org/
https://mashsoberhousing.org/standards-ethics/

Journalism about rehab recruiters and patient brokers:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/21/my-years-in-the-florida-shuffle-of-drug-addiction
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/02/opioid-epidemic-rehab-recruiters/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/us/delray-beach-addiction.html