Straight stuff on addictions

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Straight stuff on addictions episodes:

07.19.2022
Love Myself More
It was in the genes, but it hit hard and fast. A natural mother the fear of losing her kids led grudgingly to rehab. Still not believing she had a problem; angry and unhappy she drank again. After getting sober...
07.19.2022
We all need a North Star
Join us as we talk with our friend Nick about his recovery journey, professional evolution and expereince in the behavioral healthcare industry. Nick runs a treatment facility, has an intimate relationship with recovery and has a real job ahead to...
09.10.2021
A Rocky Road
His story spans decades; his job as an AP photojournalist took him to many places in the country and the world; often gone for weeks. His family missed his presence and his wife and he became increasingly estranged. Her genetics...
09.09.2021
Miracle, Good Values or God Directed Coincidence?
He grew up in what is now Silicon Valley to a hard working business family. He was always the black sheep but never doubted his strong Catholic roots and excellent parochial education. He would tell you that he was an...
09.08.2021
The Good Girl with Kay G.
She grew up conservative and religious in a small Texas town. The good girl to the core She always did the right thing and nevvvvver disappointed her Mom. A good education, some grace and maybe a little luck and she...
09.08.2021
Get Up Again, Climb Another Wall, Plant Another Flag
Ann B. shares her story of adventure and recovery! Fri, 2 June 2017
09.07.2021
His Mom Passed And Everything Changed
A second generation Irishman felt the shame from his grandfather’s alcoholism through his Mom. A good kid growing up in a religious family he always looked down on alcoholics and alcoholism. He always thought that if he drank “like that”...
09.06.2021
Near Death Experience
Nicole was a good kid.... She was more concerned about your feelings than her own. She wanted to make everyone else comfortable, but as it turns out... At her own expense. Her first experience with death was at age two,...
09.03.2021
Nurse Jack 2.0
Nurse Jack has been a guest on the show in the past and as a result of some recent listener questions we decided to ask him back to finish the story. Nursing and narcotics addiction do not go well together...
09.02.2021
Entitled Since Birth
He was the second youngest of five, born unexpectedly at home. After the first two kids Mom didn’t have much left and Eric was the favored one raised mostly by his oldest sister. He did what he wanted and ran...
09.02.2021
Redemption can take place while you're still above ground
Patrick grew up on the near West side in a good Italian neighborhood; Dad a cop and part time jewel thief and Mom a hard working patronage employee. By sixth grade he stopped caring about school and by high school his...
09.02.2021
The Third Time's the Charm
Two DUI’s was a good starter for Tom S. That and a few other drug and alcohol fueled calamities got him to call one of his old grade school buddies who had found some happiness and sobriety some while back. The first...
09.02.2021
Treatment Centers…You gotta be IN one before you OWN one
Rob R. started young in the drug world and subsequently started young in the recovery world. It wasn’t an easy road or even a straight line to success. He was always a man with a dream…a goal for himself. Ten years and...
09.01.2021
My God is Personal to Me
Believe what and how you want…skip organized religion entirely if you like (even though they might just know some things) but find what’s personal to you. Bob D. did just that. White knuckling for 18 months a beer looked pretty good. Nine years...
09.01.2021
What I Thought was my Worst Day Turned Out to be my Best Day
The first time he drank it was magic…he fit in…he thought he found the answer. A car lover to the bone he found a way to wreck five Mustangs…yeh…five different Mustangs and every crash was alcohol related and somehow none resulted...
09.01.2021
Don't Give Up, Give Back
She’s been determined to make a difference in the lives of her kids and the kids of the community. She knew that it wasn’t easy for kids to grow up in today’s world and she knew it wasn’t easy for her...
09.01.2021
The Spirit of Recovery
Most people wouldn’t consider an alcoholic or drug addict a good candidate for enlightenment. How is it then that recovering alcoholics and addicts find a “spiritual program”, a “power greater than themselves and are able, with the guidance of that...
09.01.2021
CLPD perspective on Local Drug traffic and the use of Narcan
Most of the big industrial cities particularly Boston, Chicago, New York and Seattle have dealt with the heroin problem for years. The problem however, seems to have metastasized into the surrounding suburbs where younger more affluent kids are getting into opiates. These...
09.01.2021
Faith and Sweat
Ryan joined us tonight to talk about his travels in recovery. Sat, 25 October 2014.
09.01.2021
Helping High Risk Kids
CJ Harmer and Trish Justis are two of Pioneer Center's youth program superstars. Their philosophy and that of the whole youth services team is one of respect for the kids they work with and support of each other. They ask for kids...
06.29.2021
The Gift of Desperation
Coming from a background of addiction and neglect, Annabel pretty much made up her own rules. She and her brother did their best to survive, sacrificing "normal" in the process. A longing for love and approval led down a path...
09.29.2014
Grinding Down the Sharp Edges
He came out of the gate angry and drinking heavily. The environmental and genetic ingredients were all certainly present. Fending largely for himself he was out-drinking his buddies at age 12. Drinking, drugging and “supplementing his income” he managed to...
09.01.2014
Finding Our Way Back to Innocence...The Recovering Heart
Pete was a kid torn from one parent and then torn again. He was moved from place to place with little supervision. Angry and hurt he acted out and was seemingly arbitrarily institutionalized at an early age. He would tell...
08.25.2014
He Took the Long Way Home
Jerry, his brother and Mom spent a good deal of their life on the run from a violent Father; moving from city to city, changing names, schools, friends and keeping secrets. He desperately needed a sense of belonging and found...
08.11.2014
Wild Lotus: From Muddy Water to Beautiful Flower
Jeff started his journey after his parents’ divorce at age 13 with alcohol, weed and of all things, screwdrivers. By high school he was living a double life, bi-sexual but hanging with the gangbangers. Unable to manage high school behaviorally,...
07.25.2014
Alcoholism; Plastic Surgery for the Soul
She never felt like she belonged. Gawky, pale and thin she never felt like she could compete with the “popular” girls. By the end of high school she was a tall, shapely blonde with big blue eyes…the boys couldn’t get...
07.11.2014
From Judgment to (AA)cceptance
He was a lost child…on his own in many respects. He felt alienated and not a part of anything. It was a perfect set-up for addiction. He was always searching for meaning…for something bigger but the bottle became his higher...
06.30.2014
He Took his Last Pill Every Day for the Last Three Years
Within months of his first go around with Vikes he knew he needed more. Later a shady Doc gave him a prescription for 240 Norco a month and he managed to use that in two weeks. He knew he was...
06.16.2014
The Queen of De-Nile
She finally got sober in her home area of South Bay. She went to somewhere around 700 meetings in the two years that she slipped, slid and hid her drinking before she found solid ground. Weathering the shame and embarrassment...
06.09.2014
Drug Court Success
We’ve had a couple years now to allow the drug court process to mature. We’ve had several “graduating classes” and a very good track record. We talked to the initial sitting drug court judge to get the framework of the...
05.26.2014
Recovery From the Family Disease
More than a few years ago a small group of parents began to meet in a therapists office. They talked about their struggles to stay sane while living with the insanity of their behaviorally or addictively challenged kids. They shared...
05.19.2014
She was an Unexpected Miracle
You could call our show this week a love story of sorts. Mary and her husband adopted a beautiful baby girl they named Kellen at 8 days and although her childhood was in some ways idyllic she started “cutting” by...
05.09.2014
Is There a Role for Ibogaine in Mainstream Addiction Treatment?
Ibogaine is an extract from an African plant. It produces a number of effects that we’ll find out about tonight but among them is the elimination, for most clients, of cravings and even desire for addictive substances. Ibogaine came into...
05.02.2014
Religion and Recovery with Father Jerome
Meet one of the most alive and articulate guys around. Father Jerome is a well-known and well-loved Catholic Priest. He’s full of contradictions; gregarious, gentle, caring, opinionated, humble and strong. Join us as we cover his own struggle with addiction;...
04.14.2014
TROUBLED...but Lookin' Good on the Outside
She went to church, got good grades, was popular and funny but…her Mom was a “full blown alcoholic” and her Dad had an anger management problem. Ann would say her family lived lives of “quiet desperation”. She was always the...
04.07.2014
Kids Talk About Today's "Normal"
Tonight’s show is an unusual opportunity to look inside the world of young people; a glimpse into how kids experience life. Our panel will be composed of high school aged people who are not actively involved with the drug culture. ...
03.31.2014
He Turned it Around....Transforming Tragedy
He grew up in the City. It wasn’t easy. His first run at sobriety was at the Northwest Edge Alano club but between not being ready and the “marijuana maintenance program” it didn’t last long. His second run was after...
03.22.2014
Addiction Treatment; an International Perspective
The U.S. has been a leader in medicine, the humane treatment of mental health and more recently addiction however we approach treatment from the perspective of our own particular needs. Other countries approach their mental health and addiction issues with...
03.14.2014
"The Most Important Person in the Room"
Rachael was drinking shots at thirteen. In high school she could drink most of the boys under the table and was proud to be a party girl…it was her identity. Empty and scared inside but able to tell no one...
03.10.2014
She Never Thought She'd Make it
Pot wasn’t much of an issue; neither were pills. Boyfriends were largely to blame, she thought. When he started selling and later using heroin she joined him blaming him for her use. Later when he started using heroin IV she...
03.03.2014
Not Lookin' for Reasons
He was the youngest of eleven so that was the reason he drank? Nahhhh…he drank because he didn’t know a better way to deal with life. He used because he was an alcoholic and a drug addict. It’s just the...
02.24.2014
The Methadone Maintenence Controversy
Join us for a lively discussion with Ray Chlebicki, the former national sales manager for Roxand Labs, one of the three largest manufacturers of methadone. Methadone, originally a drug developed by the Germans during the Second World War as a...
02.17.2014
Travelin' Man
Some people can travel quite a few miles before the “ism” catches up with them. Taking all things into consideration I would have to say our guest ran about as fast and as far in front of the tsunami as...
02.10.2014
Does Treatment Work? Treating Young Addicts
Our guest this week is Chris Gleason. Chris is a nationally recognized substance abuse treatment professional who specializes in working with adolescents. He’ll tell us how treatment works and the things parents can do. We’ll talk about the developing adolescent...
02.03.2014
His Vice of Choice was MORE
Some say that addiction is an attempt to fill an emptiness inside. Many with addictive disease say that they never felt like they were enough; that they never fit in or belonged even if, to all appearances they were popular,...
01.27.2014
Relationships in Recovery/Stayin' Together Sober
If sustaining a relationship isn't hard enough these days throw in the need to recover from both sides of the addictive disease. Our guests are John and Lori, a "recovering couple" who've been together many years and have been in...
01.20.2014
Weed or no Weed: The Great Dope Debate
News Flash: Big disagreement over Legality of Marijuana. Join us this Sunday for a lively discussion about the relative merits or lack thereof of our friend cannabis sativa. Chris and I will take opposing sides of an argument that spans subjects...
01.13.2014
The Paralysis of Analysis
He came in kicking and screaming. He wasn’t anywhere close to an easy convert, in fact, it might have been a gaggle of ferocious resentments at people in the program that kept him coming back if only to prove them...
01.06.2014
The Marijuana Maintenence Program
In his world drinking wasn’t a problem it was a way of life. The question was never whether or not to drink but only how well you managed the drinking. Traumatic events in his teens led to withdrawal from relationships,...
12.30.2013
Intervention; getting them in the door
Our guest this week has the personal experience to know the power of recovery. His own time in the barrel gave him the sensitivity, the knowledge and the skills to intervene in the disease process largely in the lives of...

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Straight stuff on addictions episodes:

Love Myself More

We all need a North Star

A Rocky Road

Miracle, Good Values or God Directed Coincidence?

The Good Girl with Kay G.

Get Up Again, Climb Another Wall, Plant Another Flag

His Mom Passed And Everything Changed

Near Death Experience

Nurse Jack 2.0

Entitled Since Birth

Redemption can take place while you're still above ground

The Third Time's the Charm

Treatment Centers…You gotta be IN one before you OWN one

My God is Personal to Me

What I Thought was my Worst Day Turned Out to be my Best Day

Don't Give Up, Give Back

The Spirit of Recovery

CLPD perspective on Local Drug traffic and the use of Narcan

Faith and Sweat

Helping High Risk Kids

The Gift of Desperation

Grinding Down the Sharp Edges

Finding Our Way Back to Innocence...The Recovering Heart

He Took the Long Way Home

Wild Lotus: From Muddy Water to Beautiful Flower

Alcoholism; Plastic Surgery for the Soul

From Judgment to (AA)cceptance

He Took his Last Pill Every Day for the Last Three Years

The Queen of De-Nile

Drug Court Success

Recovery From the Family Disease

She was an Unexpected Miracle

Is There a Role for Ibogaine in Mainstream Addiction Treatment?

Religion and Recovery with Father Jerome

TROUBLED...but Lookin' Good on the Outside

Kids Talk About Today's "Normal"

He Turned it Around....Transforming Tragedy

Addiction Treatment; an International Perspective

"The Most Important Person in the Room"

She Never Thought She'd Make it

Not Lookin' for Reasons

The Methadone Maintenence Controversy

Travelin' Man

Does Treatment Work? Treating Young Addicts

His Vice of Choice was MORE

Relationships in Recovery/Stayin' Together Sober

Weed or no Weed: The Great Dope Debate

The Paralysis of Analysis

The Marijuana Maintenence Program

Intervention; getting them in the door