How does adoption affect the adoptee? And how can some of the issues adoptees face resonate into adulthood?  Lisa Coppola, author of the new book, "Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adults",  and Kelly DeBennedetto, Executive Director and Clinical Director of Boston Post Adoption Resources join us to help answer these questions and more.

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to talk about the hot topics of the month.

Psychologist Kelly McGonigal joins us to talk about her latest book The Joy of Movement, and how physical exercise can be a powerful antidote to the modern epidemics of depression, anxiety, and loneliness.

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to talk about the hot topics of the month.

Dominic Esposito, artist and social activist, achieved national attention through the massive opioid spoon sculptures he placed on the doorsteps of major pharmaceutical giants.  Since then, he's founded the Opioid Spoon Project which seeks legal justice and brings voice to the destructive effects of opioid addiction on people from all walks of life.  Dominic joins us today to talk about his latest art and activism projects.

Abby and Jon go behind the headlines to talk about the hot topics of the month.

Personal stories of addiction and recovery touch us the most and have the greatest potential to heal and educate.  Milan S. joins us to share her recovery journey in the 17th installment of our series "Recovery Stories".

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to talk about the hot topics of the month.

Carl Erik Fisher, M.D., addiction psychiatrist, bioethics scholar, and author joins us to talk about his new book The Urge: Our History of Addiction, an intellectual and cultural history of addiction, interwoven with his own experiences as an addiction psychiatrist at Columbia and as someone in recovery himself.

Personal stories of addiction and recovery touch us the most and have the greatest potential to heal and educate.  Shade joins us to share their recovery journey in the 16th installment of our series "Recovery Stories." 

Sam Quinones, New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, joins us to talk about his follow-up book The Least of Us, a searing expose of the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair.

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to discuss the hot topics of the month.

The unfettered prescribing of pain medications meets the massive influx of black tar heroin in this true, riveting tale of capitalism run amok.  Author and journalist Sam Quinones explains how this unintentional collision led to the catastrophic opiate crisis in this country in his book "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic"

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to discuss the hot topics of the month.

Jon and Abby go behind the headlines to discuss the hot topics of the month.

Dr. Delaney Rushton joins us to talk about her new book "Parenting In The Screen Age - A Guide for Calm Conversations", designed to help parents have calmer and more productive conversations with their children about the technology in their lives and its impact upon their health, happiness and development.