In part two of this week's episode, Nate Smith details the steps he decided to take to try and combat his depression and anxiety with Ketamine — medication mainly used for starting and maintaining anesthesia.

We talk about the steps that have been taken in the medical field that have allowed Ketamine to become a trending resource for battling depression and what others can do if they are suffering from depression and anxiety.

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Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley are joined by Christian Smith (Cycles of Change) to talk about his experience with addiction and the damage it has caused throughout his life. His story with addiction starts when he was injured in a motorcycle accident and began taking opioids to numb the physical and emotional pain.

We also dive into how he was able to abuse pain prescriptions through pain clinics and the effect it had on his family life.

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In part two, Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley continue their discussion with Christian Smith and he describes the moment he stole $3,000 from his son to go gamble in Wendover.

Christian also details trying crack cocaine for the first time, everything he stole to fuel his addiction, living homeless, and spending a year and a half in jail after stealing from pawn shops around the valley.

Then we dive into the biggest factors that have allowed him to stay clean and on the road to recovery.

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In this episode, Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley are joined by Patrick Williams to talk about the 12-Step Program and what it means for recovering alcoholics.

In part one, we dive into the first five steps including:

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

2) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5) Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

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In part two of this week's episode, Casey Scott, Dr. Matt Woolley, and Patrick Williams dissect the last seven steps of the 12-Step Program and what they mean for recovering alcoholics.

In part two, we dive into the last seven steps including:

6) Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7) Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8) Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

9) Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10) Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11) Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley are joined by Lauren Llewelyn to talk about her experimentation with weed and alcohol at the age of 13 and how moving from apartment to apartment caused a lot of chaos for her family growing up. Then we dive into Lauren's history of surgeries that ultimately led to her becoming reliant on opioids.

She also recalls her struggle with openly talking about her sexuality and how that tension helped build a foundation of addiction to opioids and heroin.

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In part two of this week's episode, Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley are joined by Lauren Llewelyn to talk about what it felt like when her father caught her smoking heroin in her parent's downstairs bathroom and how it completely turned everything around.

Then we talk about her sobriety and what life looks like for her now.

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Dr. Robert Simpson (Medical Director, Utah Addiction Medicine) joins Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Wooley in part one of this week's episode to talk about how he went from being in a traveling circus to committing to a life of medicine. Then we talk about how his addiction to heroin and cocaine started to plague his life during med school.

We also dive into his early success in Utah as a doctor and how it was almost taken away from him as he began to abuse his privileges in the medical field to fuel his addiction. 

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In part two of this week's episode, Dr. Robert Simpson tells us how he was able to recover from a life-altering addiction and the steps he had to take to curb that addiction.

Then we talk about the work he is currently doing, the principles behind harm reduction, and why empathy is one of its core values.

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In part one of this week's episode of Project Recovery, Casey and Dr. Matt are joined by Lauren and Jason Mauchley to talk about Jason's addiction to pornography and masturbation.

We dive into the problem with waiting to have "the talk" until you're married, the issues with miseducating the public on the perils of pornography, and how Jason struggled with his addiction growing up.

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