On The Recovery Road With Greg McNeil

Greg McNeil is the recovery reporter America needs, and he’s bringing his podcasts to ROR on all subjects related to the opioid crisis and solutions. Greg’s business is web design, but his passion is recovery reporting. In two short years Greg has produced 186 (as of today) podcast interviews with an unbelievably wide range of people who work in the Addiction and Recovery fields.

For mainstream media, if it bleeds it leads. For Greg, it’s just the opposite. If it helps, that’s the story he wants to tell. As far as we know there is not another reporter like Greg McNeil. He’s the 60 Minutes kind of reporter we’d be if only….we could get on the road.

I met Greg at the CARA Family Day in Washington D.C. on April 25, where we were lobbying on behalf of the Addiction Policy Forum for 61 Congressional Bills dealing with opioid crisis that happened to be on the table the week of April 25. As we met with our Congress people and Senators, it quickly became clear to me that our lawmakers didn’t know there was no policy for public information or services for family members and children. Just like the Surgeon General’s Report on Addiction failed to mention family members and children. It’s as if the 120 million people traumatized and destroyed by addiction don’t matter….

Greg lost his son Sam to a heroin overdose when Sam was in aftercare in 2015. And like many families of loss, as Greg calls those left behind by overdose and suicide, Greg was consumed by the desire to help others. His grief caused a transformation that led him to the kind of activism that especially resonates with us. Greg literally gets on the road to interview people and things that interest him.

Only a few weeks after we met in D.C. Greg was on the road to Florida. Before interviewing Dave Aronberg, Florida State Attorney in Palm Beach County who is leading the Sober Homes Task Force, Greg flew to Sarasota, to visit the ROR offices, have lunch, and talk with us. Soon we’ll be visiting Greg in his studio in Ohio.

Here are just a few of the subjects Greg has covered recently.

Ep. 173 – Greg Interviews David Sheff, One of Time Magazine’s “Top 100 Most Influential People”

Ep. 175 – A Discussion with one of Time Magazine’s “Top 100 People Who Shape Our World” Dr. Nora Volkow

Ep. 174 – Cover2 Salutes First Responders and Recognizes First Responders Appreciation Week

Ep. 176 – How to Be a Respectable Junkie: Greg Vovos, Cuyahoga County Public Library in Parma

Ep. 177 – Expanding Naloxone Availability Throughout Our Country to Save Lives

Ep. 178 – Addiction and Sobriety with “My Fair Junkie” author, Amy Dresner

Ep. 179 – Mayor’s Task Force to Combat the Opioid Epidemic in Philadelphia

Ep. 180 – Plant Manager Addresses Drug Addiction in Workplace Head On

Ep. 181 – Using Genetics to Treat Addiction with Dr. Howard Wetsman

We’re looking forward to the collaboration. Welcome Greg.

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