ABOUT THE GUESTS
Dr. David
Herzberg
Associate Professor of History, University at Buffalo
David Herzeberg is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Buffalo. He studies the history of prescription drug abuse in America and is an expert on the history of narcotics such as heroin, cocaine and marijuana, and the history of legal psychoactives such as alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea. Herzberg is author of “Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac.”
Dr. Michael
Pantalon
Psychologist and Senior Research Scientist, Yale School of Medicine
Mike has been on the faculty at Yale School of Medicine since 1997. He is a Senior Research Scientist in Department of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Lecturer at Yale University’s Psychology Department. He is also a contributor to the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School and faculty member at Wellcoaches, Inc. Mike also maintains private practices for addiction treatment, recovery coaching and recovery coach training, and for business coaching, training and speaking.
Dr. Bertha
Madras
Member of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis & Professor of psychobiology, Harvard Medical School
Bertha K. Madras, PhD is a professor of Psychobiology at Harvard Medical School, based at McLean Hospital and cross-appointed at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research focuses on neurobiology, imaging, and medications development (19 US and 27 international patents) for neuropsychiatric disorders. In public policy, she was Deputy Director for Demand Reduction in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, a presidential appointment confirmed unanimously by the US Senate.
REGINA
MARCHETTI
Certified Recovery Specialist, Crozer-Keystone Health System
Regina, a recovering addict, was prescribed percocet by a doctor when she was 19 and developed an addiction. She did inpatient treatment for her addiction, only to come out of it shooting heroin when she was 23. In 2016, she was hired as Crozer’s first Certified Recovery Specialist at the First Steps Treatment Center — a comprehensive, 52-bed residential facility, committed to healing individuals and families affected by drug and alcohol addiction