SMART Policy Podcast
Podcast by the UT SMART Initiative. Host Jeremy Kourvelas speaks with experts from across the recovery ecosystem - representing healthcare, prevention, law enforcement and more - about local, state and federal drug policy to find out what is and isn't working to make this fight against addiction a little easier.
Podcasting since 2022 • 43 episodes
SMART Policy Podcast
Latest Episodes
What the Brain Disease Model of Addiction Gets Right — and What It Misses
Something really has changed over the past twenty years, especially in the last ten. Our culture has increasingly come to accept the idea that addiction is a chronic, treatable disease, not a moral failure. Secretary RFK Jr. of the Dept. of Health...
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When There's No License to Lose: How Tennessee Teens Are Still Buying Vapes
Ask just about any teacher or parent about what concerns them, and you’ll hear about vaping. According to the Tennessee Dept. of Health, 22% youth admit to vaping, which is a rate more than twice the national average. 22 counties across the state ...
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Equipping Communities for Recovery: Inside Tennessee’s Lifeline Peer Project
In our last episode, we heard from Andi and Tanner Clements from Uplift Appalachia that churches and communities want to help with recovery, but most don’t feel equipped to take on the challenge. There’s also the persistent fear that they might ge...
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Uplift Appalachia: Equipping and Empowering the Church to Support Recovery
This is the kind of dilemma that faces many people in Tennessee: staying in recovery while trying to rebuild a life, but resources are limited and local public transportation is not reliable or readily available. This has been identified in dozen...
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Funding Recovery Behind Bars: Bipartisan Solutions for Jail-Based Treatment
It is increasingly well understood that the criminal justice system is one of the most significant and valuable intervention points for getting people into recovery. When people are given access to the services they need to enter and maintain reco...
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