Ken Anderson Hams Harm Reduction

Join Host Monica Richardson for a 1 hour show with Ken Anderson. Kenneth Anderson, MA is the author of the book How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol--a self-help manual for safer drinking, reduced drinking, or quitting alcohol altogether. Mr. Anderson is also the founder and CEO of The HAMS Harm Reduction Network. HAMS is the first world-wide, harm reduction-based support group specifically for people who drink alcohol. HAMS is lay-led and free-of-charge. Mr. Anderson has worked in the field of harm reduction since 2002. His wide range of experience includes serving as Director of Online Services at Moderation Management and working "in the trenches" of harm reduction doing needle exchange in Minneapolis. Mr. Anderson is a regular presenter at the National Harm Reduction Conference and has presented the HAMS alcohol harm reduction program to addiction counseling classes at NYU, The New School for Social Research, and many other venues. He hosts a weekly podcast called Addiction Treatments that Work and writes a blog for Psychology Today called Overcoming Addiction.