Joani Gammill is a substance use disorder interventionist who has her own company, Joani The Interventionist, where she has performed hundreds of interventions for 12 years.\xa0 She now works full time at Recovery Centers of America facilitating interventions.\xa0 Joani has authored two successful books. Her first was the memoir. \u201cThe Interventionist.\u201d\xa0 Joani\u2019s sobriety came through an intervention that her family participated in with Dr. Phil McGraw on the Prime Time Special \u201cEscaping Addiction.\u201d Joani\u2019s second book, \u201cPainkillers, Heroin, and the Road\u201d to is about opioids, and their long history and hold on society from ancient times to the 21st century.\xa0 She speaks publicly about her struggles and success with opioid addiction and advocating and attempting to change the negative narrative that continues to swirl around substance abuse.