Career
He began fronting San Francisco Bay Area punk bands in 1980 and performed on the bass professionally for some years in Los Angeles and San Francisco, until an extended period of substance abuse and incarceration left him homeless and his reputation shattered. Caine entered recovery, became educated, and began his career in residential addiction treatment at Beit T"Shuvah. Since 2006, media calls for his commentary on substance abuse patters of celebrities and addiction treatment in American and European culture have increased.
In 2011, Caine among the first guests on a dramatic program called KLEAN Radio. www.kleanradio.com Along with Andrew Spanswick, Caine addressed a variety of issues affecting addicts and alcoholics and was warmly received by the KLEAN audience and reviewers.
Later that year, Caine was featured in a documentary series created by GRB (who also created Intervention) called RELAPSE: The Sober Coach Chronicles. This series – aired by A&East – sought to educate the public about post-residential treatment for sufferers who have experience multiple attempts at treatment but who continue to relapse.
The show was widely hailed as a challenge to “typical reality series” and was warmly reviewed by critics. Prior to RELAPSE, Caine was instrumental in educating the public in the United Kingdom about Sober Coaching through a series of informal talks with medical professionals and was widely featured in the British press
