The Addiction Podcast-Point of No Return

This podcast is Zach's story.  Zach started with marijuana at age 15 and eventually moved onto heavier street drugs.  He also ended up on various psychiatric medications which caused him more troubles than the street drugs.  Zach has done the Narconon program and is going to dedicate his life to helping others.  Happy New Year to our listeners.  Let's make this the year of a better life for us all...

The holidays can be a very stressful time for addicts and their loved ones.  We hope, if you are a loved one, that you get your addicted loved one into treatment sooner rather than later so that this can be the last holiday season of addiction and that you can look forward to sober holidays from here on out.

In September of this year, the 19 year old son of Admiral James Winnefeld (ret) died from an overdose of heroin mixed with Fentanyl.  He had just come through 15 months of in-patient rehab and was embarking upon a new career as an EMT.  Rather than giving in to the tragedy, Admiral and Mrs. Winnefeld have started an organization - Safe Project (safeproject.us) - to help fight the war on the opioid...

When Pam Bondi was elected as Florida's attorney general in 2010, Florida was #1 in the country for pill mills - places where you could literally walk in with cash and walk out with pain pills.  Dealers came from all over the country to buy the pain meds and take them back to their state.  After Pam was elected, she shut down some 98 pill mills in the state.  Fighting addiction from her position i...

We have lost some amazing artists due to drug and alcohol addiction.  We hope that any of our listeners who either are artists and addicted or who know artists that are addicted will take note and get help for their friend and loved one or themselves.  Let's not lose any more of our great artists to addiction.

Once again we send the message that to wait until after the hoidays to get help for your addicted friend or family member is a really bad idea.  Families will forgive the addict but should they forget?  Should the addict forget?

Often friends and families of addicts say that they want to wait until after the holidays to get treatment for their addicted friend or family member.  This is not a good idea because the person will be getting high while the family is gathered for the holiday and every day you let the addict continue to get high is one day closer to possible life threatening condition or death.  If you know someo...

One of the things we do on this podcast is offer solutions and resources to the problem of drug and alcohol abuse.  Today's podcast is an interview with Kent Runyon from Novus Detox in Florida.  Novus has a personalized approach to substance abuse treatment and like Narconon is not a medically assisted treatment program - in other words, it does not substitute one drug for another.  Happy Thanksgi...

Often families want to wait until after the New Year to get their loved one into treatment but NOW is the time to get help to your family member or friend or yourself.  What we are offering is life without drugs.  What better gift could there be to someone who is addicted or to those who have to live with the addicted individual.

Today's podcast is an interview with Dave Aronberg, State Attorney for Palm Beach County in Florida.  Dave has worked diligently throughout his career to stem the rising drug epidemic that is affecting Florida, just like the rest of the country.  From shutting down the pill mills under Florida's Attorney General - Pam Bondi - to making it harder for sober houses to get kickbacks from out patient r...

Drug Free America Foundation is fighting the good fight against drug abuse in this country.  DFAF and it's sister organization - Save Our Society from Drugs (SOS) work to defeat drug legalization attempts; promote sound drug policies; and prevent drug use, abuse and addiction.  This interview is with Deputy Director - Amy Ronshausen - and it will debunk everything you think you know about marijuan...

There is an organization - Drug Free World - and they provide hard hitting, true information about drugs and why to avoid them.  The booklets, DVDs, and teachers package are all free.  This podcast is an interview with the President of Drug Free World Florida, Julieta Santagostino.  She is passionate about educating children and parents about the danger of many drugs.  The truth is that if we don'...

This week's podcast is an interview with Pamela Seefeld.  Pamela is a practicing pharmacist and pharmacognosy consultant.  She offers natural solutions to things like pain.  There is no question that chronic pain is debilitating and can be life threatening.  With naturally derived, non-narcotic solutions, pain can be managed.  Pamela has been treating people naturally for over 25 years.  Note that...

Started on psychiatric drugs at age 11, Christian moved to marijuana, opiates and heroin and by age 17 was shooting heroin.   Christian just finished the Narconon program after several 12 step programs and is now clean, happy and ready to start helping others.

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 need to be alternatives for pain management because pain can be real.  There is hope people.  There is help...real help.

There is a thought out there that legalizing or decriminalizing the use of dangerous drugs might be a solution to addiction.  But is this the answer?  Don't think so.  However, in some cases it might to lead to rehab and that would be a good thing.  Is education a better way to go?  You decide but remember that if you need help. Narconon Suncoast is there to do that.

It's sad when insurance companies will pay for addictive drugs but not for drugs which might work as pain killers or sedatives but which are more expensive and then not pay for the rehab that is needed because of the more addictive drugs.  Listen to how a county in Ohio is offering solutions to the addicts in their jails.

This is a true story of alcohol addiction and redemption.  This is Cass' story and it's a hard hitting case of alcohol addiction.  Cass is clean and sober now and able to pursue his dreams.  If you think that you can't be addicted to alcohol, this podcast is for you.

The holidays are rapidly approaching - it's September already - and often families of addicts want to wait until after the holidays to get the addict into rehab.  This is a really bad idea and Jason explains why that is.  If you have a friend or family member who is an addict, get them help now, no matter what the date is.  There are two ways out of addiction - rehab and death.  Choose rehab and c...

When a family member is addicted to drugs or alcohol, it is devastating on the other members of the family.  There is shame, regret, fear, anger - a myriad of emotions.  Most parents and loved ones feel very alone when they suspect that someone they love is addicted.  They don't want to tell anyone and as a result, they often can get the help THEY need, much less actually help the addict.

There are resources for friends and families of addicts.  One resources is a support group - Learn2Cope.org.  Often when someone has an addict in their family, they feel alone and need to know that others have been through it.  The drug problem in this country is at epidemic proportions and it's going to take true rehab programs like Narconon plus parents taking a very active role in the lives of...

Because Adderall is prescribed by a doctor, must be OK, right?  Not so.  Adderall is the same chemically as methamphetamine.  So do you want to give your child methamphetamine?  Might want to think about it.

The loved ones of an addict have a very different perspective of what is happening in the life of the addict and living with an addict is a different experience.  This interview tells Jason's mom and dad's story and is riveting in it's truth.

This podcast covers opiates again.  How pervasive they are and how they lead to other problems.  This epidemic is symptomatic of a society that wants everything solved by a pill.  Isn't going to happen folks.  Get real.

Gone are the days were addicts were homeless in cities, dirty and shooting up in alleys.  Now they are young and old people in very nice neighborhoods.  With good educations and means of support.  We have become a country of pill poppers and it's showing in the number of opioid related deaths on the rise. If you suspect someone you know is addicted to opioids, you need to listen to this podcast.