Branislav Jankic's story is not so much about his addiction as it is about him dealing with his mother's addiction to drugs and alcohol.  When his mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted to tell her everything that he had experienced as a result of her addiction but he found that the best way he could do that was through his documentary short film "Letter to My Mother".

Drew's addiction began before the 7th grade with prescription drugs for "ADHD".  Add an abusive father, anger issues and add pot, meth, coke, ecstasy, Atavan, Zoloft and more. Drew's story of recovery leaves no stone unturned. Now stably sober through the Narconon program, his whole family is closer together. He is now staff and knows there is hope for anybody that wants to achieve sobriety.

Jam Alker is a songwriter who spins his experiences into stories. These stories, told through music, often touch on life’s dark, gritty underbelly, without judgment or condemnation, but often with a message of hope. In his formative years on Chicago’s music scene, Jam played virtually every stage in the city, then toured the country. Though he loved music, he lost his way. In the depths of misery and addiction, on the verge of losing everything, he reached out for help.  See also on YouTube.

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 by the Entertainment Industry Council for Outstanding Performance in a Drama Series and five SAG nominations for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. As a popular television guest star, 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 published in Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, The Florida Review, New England Review, and River Teeth, among others. She has received the Iowa Review Prize, the American Literary Review Prize, Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowships. She has an M.F.A. from Ohio State University, and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. 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".