The Addicted Mind Podcast

Duane Osterlind, Eric Osterlind

duane@novusmindfullife.com

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Booking Overview

The Addicted Mind Podcast helps audiences understand addiction and recovery through expert research and lived-experience stories. It’s a strong platform for clinicians, researchers, and authors who want to translate neuroscience and treatment approaches into hopeful, practical guidance.

Metrics

Episodes: 503

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 840 subscribers

Instagram: 989 followers

Contact Information

duane@novusmindfullife.com

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Host

Duane Osterlind - Host of The Addicted Mind Podcast and The Addicted Mind Podcast Plus. Focuses on addiction recovery education, bringing medical and lived-experience perspectives together to explain how addiction a...

Eric Osterlind - Co-host on The Addicted Mind Podcast Plus, emphasizing science-based mental training and resilience strategies related to attention, optimism, and coping skills that support recovery and mental hea...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Either (1) clinicians/researchers with credentials in psychiatry/addiction medicine/public health and a track record of treating addiction, or (2) credible lived-experience experts such as long-term sober authors/veterans advocates with documented recovery journeys.
Required Achievements:  
Published books on addiction/recovery or related neuroscience/mental health, Leadership roles in treatment programs (e.g., medical director) or extensive clinical practice, Online credibility/known expertise (e.g., subject-matter branding like “Virtual Psychiatrist”), Recognized long-term recovery milestones and public sharing through books or sustained advocacy, Relevant professional background (psychiatry, addiction medicine, internist, veteran advocacy)

Recent Guest Discussions

Dr. Muhamad Aly Rifai - Kratom/7-oh Addiction Risks; Addiction Neuroscience And Brain Changes; Recovery Through A Biopsychosocial Model; Hope Via Neuroplasticity; Evidence-based Interventions Including MAT And Trauma-focused Care

Robert "Bob" Stark - Sobriety And Self-compassion; Post-combat Transition; Trauma And Writing As Healing; Breaking Out Of Hyper-masculinity Norms; Recovery Through Lifestyle Changes And Continued Experimentation With Therapies

Recent Topics

Addiction, Recovery, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Treatment

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Addicted Mind Podcast
:

Episode 385: Tend and Befriend Women and Addiction Treatment with Adina Silvestri

June 08, 2026

Welcome to the Addicted Mind Podcast. Today, we are delighted to bring you the wisdom and expertise of Dr. Adina Silvestri, EdD, LPC as she talks about her research on women seeking addiction treatment.Dr. Adina Silvestri is a licensed Professional Counselor in Richmond, Virginia and the founder of Life Cycles Counseling. One of her specialties is helping women that are struggling with substance abuse recover from shame to find hope and healing.In this podcast, she discussed how it is importa...

TAM+ EP 110 Turn Criticism into Growth: Transforming Your Response to Criticism

June 04, 2026

Download: Growth Mindset WorksheetEver felt like feedback in your recovery journey hits you like a punch to the gut? You're not alone. In this eye-opening episode of The Addicted Mind Plus, hosts Duane and Eric Osterlind dive into why criticism can feel so painful during recovery and share game-changing strategies to transform those tough moments into opportunities for growth. Drawing from cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology, they explain how our early life experiences s...

Episode 384: The Hijacked Mind: The Truth About Kratom, 7-OH, and How Addiction Rewires the Soul with Dr. Muhamad Aly Rifai

May 25, 2026

In this episode, host Duane Osterlind sits down with Dr. Muhamad Aly Rifai, a dual-trained internist, psychiatrist, and addiction medicine specialist with over 25 years of clinical experience. Together, they dive deep into a rising public health concern—Kratom and 7-OH products—and unpack the complex neuroscience of how substance abuse alters brain architecture.Dr. Rifai shares insights from his book, Hijacked Mind: How Addiction Rewires the Soul, exploring the reality of permanent brain chan...

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