1. Brad Lamm was born on 1966 and is an American interventionist, educator and author of many books including How to Help the One You Love: A New Way to Intervene.
17 Facts About Brad Lamm
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Brad Lamm was born in 1966 in Wenatchee, Washington, the youngest of four brothers.
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Brad Lamm attended Whittier Christian High School, the University of California, Los Angeles and Pennsylvania State University.
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Brad Lamm is a lifelong Quaker, who launched Spark Recovery, an interfaith peer to peer support network.
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Brad Lamm is a Recorded Minister in the Quaker tradition and a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
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Brad Lamm opened nightclubs in Washington, DC and Denver in 2001, but entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in February 2003.
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Brad Lamm has asserted that substance abusers with strong familial and social support systems are five times as likely to succeed in their goal of sobriety as persons lacking support.
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Brad Lamm was a founding member of Mehmet Oz's "Experts" team and has presented to Parliament on Trauma's Link to Behavioral Health Suffering, as well as to the UK-European Symposium on Addictive Disorders.
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Brad Lamm speaks and works on issues of eating disorders, food and obesity with individuals and organizations.
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Brad Lamm conducts trainings and workshops in his method of Breakfree Intervention.
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Brad Lamm is a proponent of the notion that, for the person with a serious problem, loving peer groups and family members are vitally important for effective personal change.
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In 2011, Brad Lamm created and produced the eight part docu-series Addicted to Food for the Oprah Winfrey Network.
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Brad Lamm's book "Stop It: 4 Steps in 4 Weeks to Quit Smoking Now" focusses on a breathing protocol, the need for community support in addition to the necessity of a proper detox from nicotine.
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Brad Lamm is "Oprah's interventionist" and was a member of the Core Team Oz team who launched The Dr Oz Show.
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Brad Lamm is "Dr Oz's Interventionist", has worked to help families on the Dr Phil Show and is a regular guest on The Today Show and others.
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Brad Lamm and makes frequent contributions to television and radio programs including Good Morning America, The View, CBS This Morning, The Nancy Grace Show, and lists Dr Mehmet Oz, Nancy Grace, Alice Walker, Roseanne Barr, Mariel Hemingway and Oprah Winfrey among his endorsers.
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In 2008, Brad Lamm married television and stage producer Scott Sanders in a ceremony officiated by novelist Alice Walker.