Black Sheep Addictz

This episode explores how students who quietly excel can feel invisible when recognition and opportunities go to others, and why encouragement for high achievers matters just as much as support for struggling students. It argues for fairer systems that value effort, create respected vocational and apprenticeship pathways, and help every child discover strengths and routes to real success.

This episode questions whether schools prioritize compliance over independent thought, using everyday classroom examples and historical perspectives to argue for an education that builds confidence, critical thinking, and diverse learning paths.

This episode explores parents' fears about teens losing friends if they don't drink, and examines how alcohol can reshape social groups and values. It contrasts being around alcohol with being given alcohol, highlights safety concerns at parties, and includes a personal reflection on past choices. Finally, it offers practical alternatives and guidance for helping teens find connection, say no conf...

In this episode the host explains why they value risk-taking and new experiences, but draws a clear line when it comes to teenagers and alcohol based on personal experience with dependency. They contrast healthy growth through challenge with using alcohol to escape anxiety, urging parents to reflect on the messages they send and choose chances that build identity rather than erode it.

This episode challenges the idea that giving teenagers alcohol teaches them to drink responsibly, arguing it normalizes drinking and can lead to serious harm. The host shares personal experiences and real consequences to explain why parents should focus on honest conversations about risks, consent, and decision-making instead of providing alcohol. Practical advice is offered: teach coping skills,...

The host returns after a break to share struggles with urges to drink, the importance of accountability, and how cannabis helped stop a 25-year alcohol habit by serving as a medication and a path to recovery. They ask for help starting a program for people with alcohol use disorder who haven’t used cannabis before (contact: THC4alcohol@outlook.com) and announce the next season will focus on gratit...

This episode is a candid reflection on realizing painful patterns from family alcoholism showed up in the host's own life—even while they deeply loved and protected their children. The host recounts how alcohol sometimes made them less present and unpredictable, the very things they vowed their kids would never have to experience. Ultimately the episode centers on honesty and recovery: awareness i...

A personal story of growing up as the family’s "black sheep," feeling criticized and overlooked, and the ways that treatment shaped a lifetime of seeking approval. Through recovery, boundary-setting, and choosing a different path for their children, the narrator finds self-worth, peace, and pride in belonging on their own terms.

Host returns from vacation and admits struggling to get back into routine, then reflects on alcohol’s harms and their decision to stop drinking. The episode explores how quitting alcohol brought a clearer mind, fewer dramas, better mornings, and the ability to face life instead of numbing it, with a brief mention of cannabis alternatives for some people.

In this episode the host explores identity and personal growth after a visit to their childhood cottage triggers old habits and feelings of unworthiness. They reflect on how places can reactivate past behaviors and memories, and how self-work has changed their responses. They conclude that true growth shows up when you return to the places that shaped your old self and recognize you are no longer...

After a two-week trip to Calgary and British Columbia, the host shares how the vacation served as a reset and helped them move away from daily drinking by using small cannabis drinks and CBD as alternatives. The episode covers social moments with family and new acquaintances, provincial differences in cannabis retail, and the relief of no longer being controlled by alcohol.

In this episode the host reflects on using THC and CBD as intentional medical tools for emotional regulation and asks whether earlier access to cannabis-based treatment might have prevented a descent into alcoholism. They discuss stigma, compare cannabis to prescription medications, acknowledge risks, and call for honest conversations about treating underlying mental health struggles instead of di...

This episode of Black Sheep Addictz gets into the complicated reality of Alcohol Use Disorder, recovery, accountability, and why one recovery method doesn’t work for everybody. I talk about my first experience attending an AA meeting as a kid, why the program never personally connected with me, and how alcohol slowly became an automatic coping mechanism in my life. This isn’t an attack on AA. I un...

This episode was one of the hardest for me to make. Not because I didn’t know what to say… but because I finally had to understand what I was actually trying to blame. Family history. Anxiety. Trauma. Starting young. Watching alcohol become normal before I even understood what it was doing. For a long time, I blamed my mom. But healing makes you look deeper than anger. This episode is about addict...

Black Sheep Addicts — Season 5, Episode 7. The host shares their first concert experience sober, using a tiny THC/CBD gummy for nerves, and watching a young man beside them get increasingly drunk. As the night unfolds, they see their own past behavior reflected in the stranger: sloppy conversations, repeated apologies, and a relentless chase for a fading high. What begins as irritation shifts into...

Black Sheep Addicts, Season 5, Episode 6. The host shares frustration about how quickly anxiety and depression are pushed toward prescription drugs, explains risks of benzodiazepines, and stresses the need for honest conversations and harm reduction. The episode follows the host’s own experience applying for medical cannabis, what the decision is,a sober concert , and an invitation to follow...

In Season 5, Episode 5, the host opens up about social anxiety, how alcohol initially helped slow racing thoughts, and the shift toward using medical cannabis as a management tool rather than an escape. They compare cannabis with antidepressants, acknowledge risks and stigma, and emphasize learning and personal choice. The episode closes with a reflection on whether earlier mental-health support m...

Black Sheep Addicts, Season 5 Episode 4: the host explores applying for medical marijuana after using cannabis to reduce drinking and manage anxiety. Once skeptical, she shares how cannabis became a harm-reduction tool and changed her views. The episode briefly explains THC, CBD, strain effects and consumption methods, and notes an unexpected reaction tied to possible ADHD. It describes choosing a...

In this episode the host shares a raw account of a heavy day and the persistent urge to drink, symbolized by "a cooler in the fridge," and how a small family moment helped shift that temptation. It's an honest look at imperfect recovery—resisting relapse, choosing safer alternatives, and committing to transparency about struggles and setbacks.

Black Sheep Addicts, Season 5 — What We Normalize Without Realizing It. In this episode I examine how everyday routines—especially my drinking—became accepted as “normal” until they started harming me and my family. I share the slow shift from social drinking to drinking alone, the breaking point, and the small daily changes that created a clearer, healthier new normal. This is a personal call to...

What happens when something harmful becomes normal? In this episode of Black Sheep Addictz, we break down the reality behind alcohol—how it became one of the most accepted substances in the world despite its links to disease, death, and violence. From cultural conditioning to government profit, we dig into the concept of “false profit” and question whether public health is really the priority. The...

This episode is different. Instead of focusing on concepts, we’re going back to where it all started—real experience. In the final episode of the Black Sheep Addictz Cannabis Harm Reduction Series, I share my personal journey with alcohol, the mental cycle that kept me stuck, and how cannabis unexpectedly became a tool that helped me reduce, regain control, and eventually step away from drinking....

You stopped the habit… but did anything actually change? In this episode of the Black Sheep Addictz Cannabis Harm Reduction Series, we break down the critical difference between avoiding a behavior and truly replacing it. Because avoiding might look like progress on the surface—staying in, isolating, or pushing urges away—but underneath, the pattern is still there… waiting. Real change happens whe...

Why does the urge hit… even when you’re doing well? In this episode of the Black Sheep Addictz Cannabis Harm Reduction Series, we break down the real reason cravings seem to come out of nowhere—and why they’re actually anything but random. From emotions and environments to people, routines, and even time of day, triggers are everywhere. And most of them operate below your awareness, quietly reinfo...

How much of your behavior is actually yours… and how much is shaped by the people around you? In this episode of the Black Sheep Addictz Cannabis Harm Reduction Series, we break down the powerful role social environments play in drinking habits—and why change can feel almost impossible when nothing around you shifts. From unspoken pressure to group norms, you’ll start to see how certain spaces, pe...