The Addiction Podcast - Point of No Return
Summary: This podcast addresses hope and recovery options for individuals, friends, family, parents and associates who have been or may be addicted to opioids, heroin, cocaine, prescription drugs, fentanyl, and want to overcome the addiction. There are interviews with former addicts, stories of having gone through numerous failed rehabes, parents and loved ones that describe the horrors and ultimate methods they have sought to save lives and help. Issues include the changing world of rehab, from 12 step programs to successful and effective alternative approaches to detox, withdrawal, and education for stable life style changes for former addicts. The benefits and dangers of different types of rehab from those that have experienced it. The "point of no return' is when the individual has come to a realization that they need and want help. This is also for friends and family of addicts who are at their wits end and don't know what to do to help the addict. This podcast gives hope and inspiration for recovery. Some topics include: - Where can I get help? - How do I know if my child or relative or friend is addicted? - How do I get someone up to realizing they need help?
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- Artist: Joanie Sigal
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Austin is a husband and father living in rural Wyoming. He was raised in a family struggling with addiction and while he swore he wouldn't go down that road, ultimately he did end up addicted to drugs and alcohol. He now has a wife and 4 year old daughter who miraculously survived her mother's addiction. Here also on YouTube - https://youtu.be/gVpHHrnEDvs
This episode is an interview with award winning actor Tony Denison - co-star of TNT's #1 drama series "The Closer" and "Major Crimes". He describes how he overcame his battle with alcohol and cocaine and how he is now helping others become sober and stay sober. Tony has received a Prism Award for Outstanding Performance in a Drama Series and five SAG nominations. He's appeared on ABC's Castle, in the final season of FX's hit show Sons of Anarchy and had a recurring arc on FOX's Prison Break.
A prize winning nonfiction writer’s account of a troubled adolescence spent immersed in alcohol, drugs, and crime. She is author of "Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood". Her essays and memoirs have been widely. She has an M.F.A. from Ohio State University, and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. This is her story of how a self destructive girlhood and drug use is overcome and her ultimate success as a writer. Visit her at www.maureenstantonwriter.com
Jade Eilers is title holder of Miss Teen Ohio International 2019, placing top 5 in the world. These titles have given her an International audience for her platform “Start Talking, Building a Drug Free Future.” She has done more than most to help counter the drug problem nationally. Jade talks about how it is OK to not do drugs, smoke, vape or drink and that it should be validated not ostracized. She recently shared her message to Religious Leaders and Political Officials at the United Nations.
TV co-star in "60 Days in Narcoland", Alexis Johnson is 4 years clean and sober. She has suffered everything imaginable, from 7 overdoses, 2 flatlines, 3 DUI’s, 7 trips to prison, burying 16 of her friends- including her ex-fiancé, and giving her addiction 15 years of her life. Today, she is an international fitness model, making 2 magazine covers and getting published in one of the most prestigious magazines in America. Her memoir, "Beautiful Nightmare" will be released this year.
Jason and Joanie talk about pharmaceutical companies recently being sued and having to fork over millions, if not billions for their part in this whole opioid epidemic plaguing the world. it's a start. And they get into the vaping controversy. The dangers just outweigh the benefits - if there are any.
Grant Feasel was a starting center and long snapper for the Seattle Seahawks from 1987 to 1992. During that time he suffered multiple traumas and used alcohol and drugs to dull the pain. This eventually led to his death. This interview with his wife Cyndy tells the battle they went through for years to deal with the trauma and drugs. Cyndy has documented Grant's battles in her book -"After the Cheering Stops".
When Paul Fletcher was a major league baseball player for the the Phillies and Oakland Athletics, many of his teammates drank. Alcohol was readily available. But Paul got to the point where he couldn't stop. His wife and kids left him and he tried taking his own life by downing a bottle of prescription meds. But still he didn't stop drinking. Finally he got clean and sober and is working to help others get sober and stay that way. An inspiring story that anyone can overcome an addiction.
Lee says himself that with his upbringing there was no real reason to start drugs except that at a young age he started down a road of self doubt and invalidation. He got clean, has stayed clean and is a very successful entrepreneur and public speaker. https://leeburnsgames.com/
There have been several news articles printed about how addicted mothers give birth to addicted babies. This podcast interview is from the viewpoint of the addicted baby. Kim was born addicted and lacked all of the things we count on our mothers for because her mother was an addict. However, it made her even more determined to not only survive, but excel at everything she did. Wife of former NFL player Kevin Mathis, she has written her story in "Dope Girl: A Story of Addiction"
We recently published an episode with Dan Zsido (former Pinellas County Sheriff's deputy) about vaping and we have gotten some very passionate feedback. We're talking about it again today on a special episode with Michael DeLeon from steeredstraight.org. Fasten your seatbelts because it's going to be a bumpy road. As mentioned, we are not talking to adults who want to vape. We just don't want kids doing it.
Parts of Cannon's story mirror those of other recovered addicts that we've spoken to but it's also different. After going through 14 rehabs - including a wilderness rehab - and multiple felony indictments, Cannon finally found the Narconon program in Ojai California. He's not only clean and sober but helping others get that way and stay that way. https://www.narcononojai.org/
Eric Burgess excelled at baseball. Starting with marijuana at a young age, he moved on to crack cocaine before he finished high school. Finally in August 2018, he died from smoking crack cocaine that had fentanyl in it. Narcan brought him back and he has been clean and sober ever since. After getting sober, he picked up a baseball and began marking off each stitch on the baseball. Others picked it up as a way to stay sober one day at a time. This is the 108 challenge.
About 29 years ago, a public school teacher told Barbie Rivera that her 6 year old son had a mental disorder and she needed to put him on a mind altering drug - Ritalin. Barbie thought that was nutty as her son was very bright, normal and already bilingual. She started home schooling him now has her own school - called HELP Miami. Her story of how the drug companies offered to pay her $5K every year for every student she will recommend for medication is horrific.
Dan Zsido has had 15 years of narcotics investigative experience with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. e established and supervised the the Strategic Diversion Task Force investigating pharmaceutical crimes, doctor shopping, fraud, trafficking and more. His current presentations and training target the dangers of “vaping”, especially in the teen population, the e-cigarette delivery systems and he current and potential delivery of THC and other drugs through these new devices.
