Brandi Mac is a licensed and board-certified critical care nurse practitioner, writer, and nationally recognized advocate for ethical addiction treatment and family support. With over 400,000 followers across social media, Brandi uses storytelling to humanize addiction and challenge the harmful narratives that dominate healthcare and public discourse.
Her work is deeply personal, rooted in her experience navigating her daughter’s addiction, parenting her grandson, and witnessing firsthand how stigma and systemic failures devastate families. Through her platform, “Prescribed Chaos” on Substack, Brandi combines raw honesty, medical insight, and lived experience to educate, empower, and disrupt. She is the author of “Doing What You Can Live With: A Survival Guide for Families Navigating Addiction, Grief, and Impossible Choices” and is committed to helping families, clinicians, and institutions learn how to show up differently for themselves and for each other.