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Podcast: heartstorming healthcare
Episode: Understanding Childhood Addiction with Richard Capriola
Description: Richard Capriola has been a mental health and addictions counselor for over two decades. He has been licensed in Illinois and Texas and recently retired as an addictions counselor at Menninger Clinic in Houston. While at Menninger he treated both adults and adolescents with substance use disorders. He is the author of a new book for parents, The Addicted Child: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse. In this episode, we talk about: :: Richard's journey to finding passion in his work in addiction and mental health :: Alarming statistics around childhood substance abuse <...