• Ok, Now what do you do?
• Is there a secret to it?
• Can you get loaded after a long period of being clean?
• How does one stay sober for the rest of their lives?
• Did you want to get high?
• Did you have using/drunk dreams?
• How did you deal with that?
• Did anyone not want to see you get better? 
• What happened to your friends?
• was family supportive?
• How many true friends did you end up with after? 
• How can I tell I have a problem?
• How did you succeed when many others your age did not?

• Why did you stop?
• Do you have to want to get clean for it to work?
• What was treatment process like?
• Did you feel it was going to work?
• Did anyone help you through?
• Was there a moment of clarity?
• Describe entering vs. Leaving treatment

• Life before recovery
• What active addiction was like?
• The impact of social media. 
• Active addiction as a teen. 
• Active addiction as a teen at school.
• Could you stop? Did you want to?
• Did you care? 
• Who were you hurting?
• Authority figures?
• What happened before you quit?
• Suicidal?
• Could anyone help you? 
• Could anyone reach you? 

Chris Tannahill talking about Pain and Addiction.

• What is addiction?
• 3 types of addicts.
• How emotional pain keeps us loaded.
• How youth perceive this process.
• Being young and loaded.
• How I understand my early use?
• Is pain necessary?

• Step 2/step 3/step 4/ step 5 
• Power vs God
• Atheist? Agnostic? Cool.
• Personal Experience & of Others with this step
• Sanity?
• Made a decision…??
• Why God? Why Spiritual?
• Inventory – moral or immoral?
• Why write it down?
• Is it Confession?
• What happens when I do this? What happens if I do not?

• Steps 6, 7, 8 ,9, 10 11, 12
• Why is there only a paragraph in Big Book on steps 6,7??
• What do I do exactly on 6,7?
• Is Step 8 necessary? 
• Is 8,9 just an apology?
• What if I don’t forgive who I am making amends with?
• Explain, “injure them or others”
• What if I do not care about the people on my amends list?
• Is step 10 just this process in short form?
• Do I have to continue to do this?
• Is step 11 necessary if I am already a church goer?
• How do I do step 11?

What if I do not have time to help others? Is step 12 necessary?    

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

• What are the 12 steps?
• Why do we need them?
• Guide to Living not New Religion
• Beginning the Process
• Why it is so hard for many...
• Breakdown of Step 1
• Personal Experience and Obstacles

Do you want to be an Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselor?

• Why Counseling?
• What does a counselor do?
• LISTEN
• Self Care
• Your Work is not Your Recovery
• Profession with Highest Rate of Relapse
• Boundaries
• Burnout
• Encourage & Listen

Chris Tannahill interviews Derek Townsend about his downward spiral starting as a young teenager. 

• Gateway drug?
• How dangerous if it's legal?
• Social perception of drunks/alcoholics over the years
• Has treatment changed for alcoholic in last 40 years?
• Purpose of treatment?
• Purpose of counselor?
• Number of alcoholics in treatment vs heroin addicts etc...

Chris Tannahill on "Cannabis."

Topics covered:

• Very Federally illegal
• Schedule 1 - physical/psychological - no medical use
• Is cannabis addictive?
• Potency vs. 1966?
• ER visits?
• DUI's?
• Gateway drug?
• The “Vote”
• Does weed have a place in Treatment? 
• Does it have a place in recovery?
• There are more cannabinoid receptors in the brain than opioid receptors.
• Where are we going with this? 
• Decriminalization?