Hard Knox Talks: Your Addiction Podcast

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Send us Fan Mail Check us out live and interactive every Sunday eveining on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/hardknoxtalks/ Here's next weeks live stream   I Made A Promise: The Story of Recovery Advocate, Brad Siroski. Tap the link to set a reminder! This Episode's Description; "For me, normal was violence. It was going out, selling drugs, and getting my money." Tommy was lo...

Send us Fan Mail Live with Allan Kehler - Mental Health Advocate here in the studio to talk about mental health and whatever happens to fall out of our mouths! This is not structured!  Allan is also part of the driving force behind Born Resilient Clothing , the brand giving away a T Shirt to one lucky viewer this Sunday night at I Met A Chaplin In Jail: The Story of Tommy LaPlante don't forge...

Send us Fan Mail Set a reminder for next weeks (Sunday April 16th) live stream here https://fb.me/e/4gjpUTT9A From Kindersley, Saskatchewan. D Jay moved away from home at 15 to chase his dreams as a hockey player. "I did not know who to talk to. I was scared of being judged, scared of being a distraction to my teammates and coaches and scared of looking weak as hockey guys are 'tough&apo...

Send us Fan Mail "I’m Manny Vitale, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. I’m also a former Detroit Police Officer, an E.M.T., And a former gang member." Manny celebrated 3 years in recovery on January 27th, he was also told he had less than 6 weeks to live. "It just takes 1 person to change your life and now I’m determined that God kept me alive for a reason so I’m gonna be that...

Send us Fan Mail They met as teens. And after 20 years of drug addiction, jail time, heath scares, child apprehensions and more, Steve and Sonya Johnson decided it was time to find a safer way. Join us this week live and interactive for an inspiring and unscripted conversation with with this recovery power couple to find out just how they got from where they were, to where they are now right here,...

Send us Fan Mail “It’s not the circumstance that gets you, it’s your STORY about the circumstance that gets you” Matt Gardiner is a Recovery Coach & Story work Coach who has a story of his own to tell. Matt has helped numerous people get out of their 'stuck stories' and manage their addictions to effectively integrate sobriety into their lives. Tune in this week and listen to this en...

Send us Fan Mail "My drinking and my behavior while drinking was costing me jobs and relationships." Ed came up in the public housing projects of Pittsburgh, PA. He was raised by a single mom. "I fought a lot, suffered physical abuse, observed a lot of violence, and even saw someone get killed once." After a long struggle with drinking, Ed realized he needed to stop focusing on...

Send us Fan Mail "In the last year alone, there has been a record of overdose fatalities and a rise in substance use, especially for women. Tragically, many are living in the darkness of shame often created by the consequences of addiction like sexual violence and even death." Caroline is a Social Worker, Author, and recovery advocate. Amongst many other things, including founder and vis...

Send us Fan Mail Donna, Co-Host and Social Correspondant for Hard Knox Talks, came off the street nearly 5 years ago. She had been unhoused and experiencing extreme domestic violence for 18 months right here in Saskatoon, SK. Addicted. Pregnant. Kim is the Director of Family Support for Prairie Harm Reduction. Her program fought hard for Donna and supported her when she needed it the most and as a...

Send us Fan Mail "I’ve struggled with Alcohol Use Disorder for years. Once I started drinking had a very hard time stopping." Luc is a sober dad, husband, marathoner & alcohol-free life coach. "Then I got introduced to cocaine, things accelerated quickly." Join us this week for this live and interactive conversation with Luc about what he was like, what happened, and how he...

Send us Fan Mail "I tried to take my own life, on our basement floor. And as I was fading, I heard a voice." Melissa is a suicide attempt survivor and person in recovery from a toxic relationshp with alcohol. "There was something standing there and when it spoke, it's lips didn't move." Join us this week for this live and interactive conversation with Melissa about wh...

Send us Fan Mail "I'm a leader, and I led my kids right to the Penitentiary." Andrew grew up in chaos. "I was a thief way before the drugs." And that chaos move through him to the next generation. "I lost my daughter to overdose and my sons been locked up for shooting his uncle." Join us this week for this engaging live and interactive conversation with Andrew as...

Send us Fan Mail "I come from a family history of early life trauma, and substance use disorders." Kim is a teaching professor and Associate Dean of Science at Carleton University. She is also the co-host of the popular podcast, Minding the Brain. "As a young scientist I was very passionate about understanding the impact of early life trauma." Kim has been studying the impact o...

Send us Fan Mail After living on the streets in Vancouver, Nicole pulled her life together and successfully completed law school. Within a short time, she found herself getting high before court appearances and engaging in questionable billing practices. Too high to attend the Law Society hearing, she was disbarred and lost everything – she turned to dealing meth and associating with some incredib...

Send us Fan Mail We are Addictions Advocates with expertise in opioid use. We would like to offer up some insights as to how our experiences with Opioids affected us in comparison to Alex Murdough's claim of a $50k/week habit. State of South Carolina v. Richard Alexander Murdaugh is an ongoing American criminal case in the South Carolina Circuit Court in which Murdaugh is accused of the murde...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another episode of Hard Knox Talks. In this episode, we dive into a pressing issue that has been gripping North America - the overdose crisis. Is declaring war on drug cartels the only way to put an end to this crisis? Our guest, Findt Anderson, shares his gripping story and his take on the extreme measures needed to save our communities from the clutches of drugs. Find...

Send us Fan Mail "I had liver failure, Kidney failure, I ended up in a coma due to my drinking." Mike Faria hit a hard bottom with alcohol. "I wasn't able to walk, couldn't swallow fluids, I could go on and on. But that's what I needed, I was blessed to survive." Watching his family, his whole world, fall apart, he coped inside a bottle. Until it nearly took his...

Send us Fan Mail "When we can stop looking through the lens of 'why the addiction?' And start looking at it from 'why the pain?' we begin to find a more permanent solution to a very real global problem." Drew Wild is a person in recovery. Since he found a safer way to live, he has found a new purpose. To change the way this planet looks at and approaches addiction. An...

Send us Fan Mail "I took my 1 year old little girl down to the pond. I was blacked right out." Ben is the creator of a popular healing based community on Facebook. He is also a person healing himself from a toxic relationship with substances. "My daughter was my world, I couldn't believe I put her in such danger, she could have died. I couldn't live with my behaviour and m...

Send us Fan Mail "You aren't decriminalizing substances you're decriminalizing human beings so they dont have to rot in a jail cell for displaying symptoms of thier disorder." Dr. Fornnsler is the Knowledge Translation Manager for the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse. 'When people say they benifited from their time in jail, what they benifited from waws sta...