WEEKEND RAMBLE- DR. ROB TANGUAY-PSYCHIATRY, ADDICTION, & TRAUMA

Dr. Tanguay is a Psychiatrist who completed two fellowships, one in Addiction Medicine and one in Pain Medicine. He is a clinical assistant professor with the departments of Psychiatry and Surgery at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Most recently Dr. Tanguay helped found and is the Chief Medical Officer of The Newly Institute, a disability and rehabilitation program dedicated to providing medical and psychological intervention for people living with complex and treatment resistant mental health disorders such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, addiction, and chronic pain. He was the Medical Lead for the Alberta Addiction Education Sessions and Opioid Dependency Treatment Education for Alberta Health Services (AHS) developing award winning educational programming. He was the Regional Director for Alberta and North West Territories for the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) where he sat as a board member, the former President of the Pain Society of Alberta, and continues to be the co-chair of the internationally recognized Alberta Pain Strategy. He is the founder of innovative programs including the Opioid Deprescribing Program with AHS, the Rapid Access Addiction Medicine (RAAM) Community Clinic with AHS, and the Transitional Outpatient Pain Program for Spine (TOPPS) clinic working with UofC spinal surgeons to optimize spinal surgery outcomes. He previously consulted with the Operational Stress Injury Clinic treating veterans and RCMP for trauma related injuries. Academically, he is involved in research in trauma, addiction, chronic pain, opioids, psychedelics and cannabis and is a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education at the University of Calgary. If you have a nonprofit or fundraiser that you would like to advertise for free, and spread a five-minute dose of kindness to the world while doing it, you can on the latest Chuck LaFLange Production, ⁠Morning Cup of Kindness. ⁠ Details ⁠HERE⁠ Remember if you are listening on Spotify, you can watch the video version there as well. If you are listening on any other platform, you can watch the video version on YouTube by clicking⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠HERE⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠ or searching "ashestoawesomepodcast" in YouTube. VIST WWW.A2APODCAST.COM FOR ALL THE THINGS, INCLUDING CHUCKS NEW E-BOOK, "TURN SORRY INTO THANK YOU" Thank you so much for listening. If you are listening on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify platform⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, you are able to share your thoughts about an individual episode in the interactive element that Spotify offers. Doing this tickles the fancy of the algorithm and really helps us to spread the message. Also please visit our Facebook page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and like, share, or comment on any of the posts. Your feedback there is sincerely appreciated, and taken quite seriously. Lastly, most of our alumni guests from the podcast are members of our Facebook group. If you would like to get to know any of them, or have questions, or perhaps would like to invite them onto another show, this is a great place to interact. You can join that group ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here .⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ours sponsors, that make spreading the message possible: Dent Kits - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WEBSITE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Together We Can Recovery Society ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WEBSITE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Revolution Recovery -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠WEBSITE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Yatra Trauma Therapy Center -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WEBSITE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Nate D Foundation = ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WEBSITE⁠⁠⁠