Episode #5- Addiction and COVID-19 with Recovery advocate and speaker Tim Ryan (of A&E network fame)

I interview with Recovery Advocate and Speaker Tim Ryan regarding what he calls "a pandemic within the pandemic" addiction during the global pandemic of COVID-19. Mr. Ryan discusses his current work both he and is wife are doing throughout the U.S.A on addiction and ways us social workers in America can do to assist those in need of treatment during the covid-19 crisis. We discuss briefly what our government can do with the addiction crisis as well. Mr. Tim Ryan can be found on LinkedIn. His company is Dope to Hope, LLC. This episode means a lot to me since I lost someone very close due to alcohol addiction.