Hard Knox Talks: Your Addiction Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Join the conversation live, shop our store, get on our email list, and more. Click the link and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks  ----------------------------------------------- “I recovered from alcoholism with LSD 22 years ago. And if you find something that works, you want to share it, right?” Garyth is an Ibogaine provider and psychedelic practitioner in Vancou...

Send us Fan Mail Join the conversation live, shop our store, get on our email list, and more. Click the link and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks   -------------------------------------------------------- Amanda's boots-on-the-ground vantage point around addiction has given Amanda a crystal clear perspective that "not one size fits all" when it comes to addiction ser...

Send us Fan Mail Join the conversation live, find us on your favorite audio podcast platform, shop our store, get on our email list, and more. Click the link and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks   -------------------------------------------------------------- “Hanging out behind Home Depot, even the meth heads were scared of me.” Matt started drinking at 16 years old, started using...

Send us Fan Mail Check out our upcoming live streams and find us on your favorite audio platform. Click the link and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks ----------------------------------------------------------------------- “Good days are guilt, I feel like I killed my son because I called the cops, and they shot him.” Carey lost her son in 2018. Substance use and mental health were...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Kim Hellemans is a teaching professor and Associate Dean of Science at Carleton University, and the co-host of the popular podcast, Minding the Brain. While Dr. Hellemans is incredibly accomplished, she is equally personable, which is why I've asked her to come on the show. I had questions and I suspect many of you might be wondering the same things: Is there a genetic di...

Send us Fan Mail Join the conversation live, shop our store, get on our email list, and more. Click the link and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks  ------------------------------------------ "I was on the streets of Detroit using Fentanyl, Crack, and Meth. It was the darkest and most horrific 3 years of my life." Cara started using at 13, she quickly spiraled out of contro...

Send us Fan Mail Join the conversation live, shop our store, get on our email list, and more. Click the link and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks  ------------------------------------------ “I was deported from the U.S. and am on a lifetime ban because I am a convicted 3-time felon.” Brad is the creator of the popular social media platform Sober Motivation on Facebook and Instagram...

Send us Fan Mail Check out our upcoming live streams and find us on your favorite audio platform. Click the link and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks ---------------------------------------------------- If you ask Chelsey, her first love wasn't a person: it was fentanyl. "I was a young girl without a father figure, I didn't know what to do to get that connection and...

Send us Fan Mail Stay up to date on our upcoming live streams, shop our store, get on our email list, and more. Click the link and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks  ---------------------------------------------------- "Long story short, I ended up having 2 open heart surgeries and my legs amputated as a result of my addiction." Trey just celebrated 19 months in recovery,...

Send us Fan Mail Check out our upcoming live streams, find us on your favorite audio platform, shop our store, get on our email list, and more. Click the link in our bio and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks  ----------------------------------------------- "I ended up Heroin and Meth but I finally got into recovery, I relapsed a lot." Today she owns a cleaning company, and...

Send us Fan Mail Check out our upcoming streams, find us on your favorite audio platform, get on our email list, shop our store, and more. Click the link and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sharon Acoose is a person of lived experience with substance use and street life. She has been on a healing journey for the...

Send us Fan Mail Check out our upcoming live streams, find us on your favorite audio platform, shop our store, and more. Click the link in our bio and start exploring! https://linktr.ee/hardknoxtalks  ---------------------------------------------------- "I heckled a guest speaker at a conference, but was still baffled when people suggested I had a problem." Jamie grew up in an alcoholic...

Send us Fan Mail Darren was already struggling with substances when he tragically lost his brother to drug poisoning. That sent him into the abyss. “My plan B if I ever got into serious legal trouble was to just kill myself. I didn’t care.” And despite the dangerous lifestyle and suicide attempts, Darren found his way into a church basement. “I walked into a meeting, took a white chip. I started c...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Barbara Fornssler has had her own experience with substances. And that lived experience gave her eyes to see the social injustices taking place in this province, and across Canada towards people who use drugs. So Barb went to work tirelessly and earned a Ph. D. in Public Health. "We're going to talk about activism and policy, protest and direct action, social movemen...

Send us Fan Mail “I was going to end up dead or in jail if I didn’t change my ways. Plant medicines helped me realize that.” Chris Jordan spent a lifetime on the run from himself. “I was living in denial, I thought I had it all together but I ran from being uncomfortable.” Tune in this week and listen to #takeofftheblinders around how plant medicines saved his life. “Psychedelics helped me peel ba...

Send us Fan Mail “I remember there was where the most rational thought I could produce is that the world would be better off without me.” Ryan grew up in a home filled with mental health challenges, he believes his substance use has roots in trauma. All the pain, went away the first time he smoked weed. “It made me full and comfortable in myself” Today Ryan works in a recovery center and advocates...

Send us Fan Mail After living on the streets in Vancouver, Nicole pulled her life together and successfully completed law school. Within a short timeframe, 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 – and then turned to dealing meth and associating with som...

Send us Fan Mail  "My life was a chaotic abyss, I didn't know how bad it was until I tried to quit." Tamara ran across Canada trying to find a life without substances. But wherever she went, there she was. At her lowest point, she was reincarcerated, the only people who would visit was her Mom and Grandmother, "My Grandma was getting skinnier every time I saw her. I knew I was...

Send us Fan Mail “I had a rock tied to my waist walking into a river. If someone hadn’t seen me. I wouldn’t be here.” Eric spent his life battling addiction. He had a lot of success, but struggles always took him back out there. “All I ever wanted to be was a good dad, I always loved my children, but I could never love myself.” From suicide attempts, to psych wards, to the loss of a friend, Eric h...

Send us Fan Mail “The doctor didn’t seem to care that I was struggling he just kept prescribing pain meds and told me to get out of his office” Jennifer struggled with Fibromyalgia her whole adult life. She managed it with non-habit-forming medication until she found a new doctor. Fentanyl and hypomorph flowed like water. Even when she asked to reduce her dosage, her doctor insisted she continue....

Send us Fan Mail Born into addiction, and raised by a guardian she called grandma, Tee managed to steer clear of substances until, at the age of 18, she dislocated her knee. The doctor put her on oxys. At 20, she entered a methadone program but not long after, was suddenly cut off when she was unable to attend due to her grandma’s passing. Down the rabbit hole, she went. 15 years on the streets an...

Send us Fan Mail “I got arrested and taken to jail in my uniform. I was paraded around the precinct in handcuffs.” Travis Sackett was arrested on duty for credit card fraud to support his habit. A dog he rescued at the height of his addiction walked with him through the chaos, her name was Karma. “On my darkest day I was in solitary confinement, traumatic brain injury, couldn’t talk. I had to find...

Send us Fan Mail “I was existing and not living, I wanted to die. I was done with it all” Justin was past the point of return, so he thought. Opiate addiction, home invasions, cheque fraud, drug dealing, prison time again, and again, and again. There was nowhere left to go. “For the first time in my life, I realized I wanted and needed God. It’s a powerful moment when the want and need collide” Jo...

Send us Fan Mail In her travels around the world, and close to her heart, Joy couldn't help noticing the suffering of people struggling with mental health & addictions. Eventually, she asked: "Why are you calling me God? I don't know how to help." The answer: "It is not what you know, it is your heart". Joy decided to educate herself, and go to work and we'll...

Send us Fan Mail “When I was interviewing HIV patients, I learned very quickly that HIV was the least of their worries.” Maryellen is an Addictions Researcher and Ph. D. Student at the University of Saskatchewan. She has dedicated her life to advocating for people who use substances. “Our decision-makers have the evidence, but here we are, still dying.” Tune in this week and listen to Maryellen #t...