Hi, I’m Reef.
My mission in life is to help you expand your mind and open up your world to allow for more connection and opportunity. As a neuroscientist, mental health physician and performing artist, I’ve built an innovative platform that integrates and expands both sides of our brain; the cognitive and the creative. I currently coach people, speak and share this message in television media, podcasting and on stages.
The ability to build an innovative and flexible mind, while getting out of our own way, it paramount to a more meaningful, fulfilled and passionate life.
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Welcome to Morning Madness, your personal transformation online source to a better and happier life. Morning Madness is a weekly personal growth series with either video, audio podcast or written materials.
Jon Stewart disrupted traditional political news. It’s now time for a revolution in health and human behavior. Reef Madness is an online late night talk show dedicated to sex, drugs, celebrities, pop culture and human behavior.
Watch Reef blend comedy, pop culture and human behavior in the late night television pilot, After Hours with Dr. Reef. Reef has celebrity guests, reality stars, experts and comics all talking about the crazy world we live in.”
“Reef believes that Laughter Really is the Best Medicine so he’s been known to get up on stage to do stand up at various LA comedy clubs as well as write, produce and appear in improvisational comedic sketches on life, topical news and human behavior.”
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The State of Addiction Treatment
July 24, 2017, Podcast hosted by Mary Woods
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Many treatment providers feel like they’re treating a “moving target” and want assistance in how to be more effective. As more and more residential centers, intensive outpatient treatment and sober living facilities pop up all over the country, the lack of a universal treatment platform and outcome measures leave great debate about what works and what doesn’t. Why does substance abuse treatment have such a high recidivism rate? What’s wrong with treatment? How the opioid epidemic developed and what’s the future with a cannabis and designer drugs.
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About Dr. Reef Karim
Dr. Reef Karim, an expert in human behavior, has dedicated his life to educating, entertaining and helping people understand themselves better.
He is a double board certified psychiatrist, addiction medicine physician and relationship expert as well as a writer, comedic host and media personality. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and the founder and director of The Lumion Center in Beverly Hills, a personal development outpatient treatment center for mental health, toxic relationships, personal growth and chemical and behavioral addictions.
The good doctor is a highly sought after speaker and is well known in the media with appearances on Oprah, Dr. Oz, Larry King Live, Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper 360, Nightline, The Today Show, Chelsea Lately and many others.