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Top 10 Harm Reduction Names You Should Know.
—Psychology Today
BOOK
Provocative and insightful, "Kicking and Screaming" is filled with numerous personal stories from the inside of both 12-Step and harm reduction. It is the first book of its kind, answering the question, "What is harm reduction really and what would the founders of AA actually have thought of it?" "Kicking and Screaming" is a blueprint for a new road to recovery - a new look at recovery - and acts as a bridge between 12-Step and harm reduction for the next generation.
Contributor to Rehab: An American Scandal by Pulitzer Prize finalist Shoshana Walter (2025) - shoshanawalter.com
An investigative exposé examining why America's rehab-centered approach to addiction has failed, revealing how the treatment industry often exploits patients for profit while failing to provide effective recovery resources.
IN THE NEWS
Dee- Dee and her co-author, the writer Joe Clifford were interviewed for Books & Recovery magazine earlier this year (2025). You can read them here.
The 10 Harm Reduction Names You Should Know: I am deeply honored to be named in an article in Psychology Today by Adi Jaffe, PhD as one of the "Top 10 Harm Reduction Names You Should Know" recently! See the entire article here. (from Psychology Today, Spring 2019)
YOUTUBE
Dee-Dee spoke to addiction and emergency medicine doctor, Taylor Nichols, MD, who runs an addiction medicine clinic based in harm reduction practices in Sacramento, CA. His podcast, Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy, explores substance use disorders, harm reduction, and recovery with people with lived experience, experts in the harm reduction field, and leaders in drug policy. You can learn more about Dr. Nichols at www.tnicholsmd.com.
Dee-Dee is one of the UT Health San Antonio faculty experts here along with other behavioral health (BH) experts. We rotate leading conversations on a variety of topics related to BH including live case presentations from clinical participants. Our meetings are live online the last Friday of most months. These are free and CEUs are offered.
"Meet Dee-Dee Stout". An interview with certified parent coach Cathy Taughinbaugh.
FB Live event on Harm Reduction hosted by "Moms for All Paths to Recovery" with Dr. Andrew Tatarsky (Center for Optimal Living, NYC) and Prof. Dee-Dee Stout, MA (Dee-Dee Stout Consulting, Bay Area, CA)
Join me on the Life Process Show on Drugs, Addiction, and HARM REDUCTION (Kicking and Screaming) More information at https://lifeprocessprogram.com/
Join Director Adam Finberg and Producer Greg Horvath on April 26th at 7:45 pm for the WORLD PREMIERE of The Business of Recovery at the Newport Beach Film Festival. A second screening has been added on April 28th at 5:00 pm. There will also be a panel of experts - some of whom were interviewed for this film - after the screening on Sunday eve. Please plan to join us!
More information at http://www.thebusinessofrecovery.com/#
DEE-DEE STOUT ON PENN & TELLER'S BULLSHIT! (SEASON 2, EPISODE 11). Video not available for viewing here.
FILMS
PODCAST
ARTICLES & PAPERS
Click on the links below to listen to these great and informative podcasts.
I had the chance to talk with Brenda Zane on her podcast, Hopestream, about how parents can use a combination of CRAFT, motivational interviewing and harm reduction strategies to help their kids who are misusing substances. You'll even get to listen in on a role-play we did between a worried mom and her daughter who is using street-Xanax. Take a listen here!
Brenda Zane at brendazane.com
I was interviewd by Glenn and Sebastian from the Podcast Talking to Change. You can follow them on twitter www.twitter.com/changetalking. Sebastian at www.twitter.com/sgkfromnc and Glenn at www.twitter.com/glennhinds
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Guiding as Practice: Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Informed Work With Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence (from Partner Abuse Journal, Spring 2009)
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Women Imprisoned: When Substance Use and Treatment Become Means of Control (from Filtermag, October 2018)
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Parenting Under the Influence: Many of us are parenting while using drugs. Sometimes with a single drink at dinner; sometimes with criminalized substances; sometimes chaotically so. But often it’s invisible, because we’re doing it in the closet.