Stephen Donnelly’s drug use started – as with so many – when he was a teenager. However, later in life, when Stephen answered God’s call and become an ordained priest in the Roman Catholic church, his drug use continued. Fueled by guilt, it took years to confront his addiction...

Tiffany Jenkins is the funny lady behind “Juggling the Jenkins”. She has over 4.5 million Facebook followers and counting! Tiffany is a wife, mother, best-selling author, content creator and recovering addict. Although best known for her funny viral Facebook and YouTube videos...

After suffering childhood trauma, Tina Levene turned to alcohol and drugs to cope. That was until she learned that if she shared her own childhood trauma with others, she might be able to help other children. She turned her life around and she is helping to set up recovery sch...

Mike Diamond is a Television Personality, Director, Life Coach, and Interventionist. Known for his work on the hit TV shows NY Ink and Bondi Ink Tattoo Crew, which was nominated for a Logie Award for Best Reality Series. Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Mike got off t...

We’ve talked about marijuana many times on the podcast and noted that quite a few of the former addicts started their drug path with marijuana. In this episode, Dr. Kenneth Finn from Colorado gives us the facts about the use of marijuana as pain medication as well as it’s adve...

Robert is a successful entrepreneur and childhood sexual abuse survivor. Straddling the line between poor and destitute, Robert was raised by a single mother in a failing steel town. Robert wrote his book – “Before I Leave You” – as a final message, fully intending to end his...

Tim Ryan is probably best known as the star of the A&E documentary “Dope Man”. And he is no stranger to addiction. Despite a successful business career, Tim found himself in the grips of heroin and, ultimately, was sentenced to seven years in prison for drug-related convic...

The opioid epidemic has spun off so many other “epidemics” that it is now being referred to as a syndemic. We have a syndemic in this country. Drugs are being used to “cure” addiction, which is just nutty. But there needs to be alternatives for pain management because pain can...

Aaron Garcia is an evangelist, international speaker, best-selling author of “Coincidence or God?” and his newest book – “Burn Notice”. At one time, he was the biggest drug dealer in Joplin Missouri and living on the streets. He is the founder of S.O.S. Ministries, Inc., a non...

There is a saying that it takes a village to raise a child – meaning that there are many different people that play a part. This podcast is a roundtable discussion with several different experts – all of whom are playing their part in addressing the addiction pandemic; whether...

Britt Barker had a good upbringing, a stable family. But he wanted to try alcohol and drugs; and so went down the road to addiction. He was arrested a few times and went through several rehabs. Finally sober since July 2015, he is making music and has released his first solo E...

K.C. Armstrong got his start on the Howard Stern Show — first as an intern then as a cast member and producer. Now he is now a radio personality in his own right as the host and founder at WMAP (World’s Most Amazing People). In between was a dark life from homelessness to alco...

Meghan is an advocate for drug education. She is a public speaker, brand ambassador and event producer. Since 2006, she has been the Executive Director of the Foundation for a Drug Free World of the Americas Chapter. She also promotes basic Human Rights as the Executive Direct...

Rob Lohman’s rap sheet includes alcohol and drug addiction, gambling addiction, divorce, bankruptcies, mental health and suicide ideation, prison, recovery and transformation. Rob’s drinking career started at age 14 which lead to some very dark places. The climax of Rob’s drin...

Brandi Winans is an inspirational keynote speaker and Life Coach. She was married to former Pro NFL player, Jeff Winans for over 30 years, and she details their life story in her book, “The Flip Side of Glory”. This was told from the wife’s perspective, in a story of love, acc...

Ellen Isaacs grew up with addiction in her family, became addicted herself and then lost one of her sons to an overdose. Now she is an advocate for addicts and teaches parents and loved ones the value and use of Narcan in order to save lives from overdoses. Through Ryan’s Opio...

This is the story of a mom living the nightmare. Her 22 year old son is addicted despite several rehabs and the 24/7 work of his mom – Kelly Hatcher. What she’s going through is why we do this podcast. We don’t want other moms and dads to live this nightmare. Now Kelly is help...

Welcome to The Addiction Podcast-Point of No Return. In this first episode, meet Jason Good, co-host with Joanie Sigal. Our goal is to give hope and encouragement to families, friends and addicts no matter what is occurring. We will have discussions between us, observations of...

A large percentage of people addicted to drugs started on painkillers for some sort of pain. The drugs can exacerbate the pain and add to it and cause it to get worse physically and mentally as addictions. Listen to the stories of how the Narconon program helped people overcom...

The standard 28 day rehab program often fails. It’s usually just not long enough to get someone stably sober. When you consider that someone did not become addicted in 28 days – it may have taken many months or years of scaling up to full on addiction – it a hard road to rehab...

In many cases, the current mentality and methodology for treating drug addiction is to substitute a supposedly “less dangerous” drug like suboxone or methadone for the one addicted to. It’s a “drug for drug” mentality and we believe there are alternatives in most cases. https:...

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https://theaddictionpodcast.com/2019/03/episode-99-drug-prevention-summit-part-2/?doing_wp_cron=1594192359.9077959060668945312500 This is part 2 of our Drug Prevention Summit interviews, done on-site. In this episode we interviewed an independent consultant who is an expert on...