SafeHouse Podcast

Season 3- Episode 06

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

The purpose of our podcast is to help families learn the truth about addiction and alcoholism so that they can take the right action to help the addict they love and to help themselves at this critical time in their lives. Exposing the truth about addiction and alcoholism also requires that we bust the myths surrounding both addiction/alcoholism and the recovery process.

An Interview with Andrew – This is Not a Game

Season 3 – Episode 06

In this post, I interview Andrew, a 30-year-old professional, clean and sober for more than 6 years.

The topics we covered were:

It’s rare that an addict or alcoholic becomes addicted to only one substance, “poly-addiction” is the norm.

Mother is the great enabler. She tries to help him stop, while at the same time allows him to live rent-free in her second home.
Andrew hated the way he felt, and wanted to stop, but didn’t know-how.
He came to realize that he could not quit on his own and needed to reach out and beg for help.
Connecting to other young recovering people got him into his first 12 step meeting where he surrendered his old ways of thinking, and he’s been clean and sober ever since.

Other Episodes: 01 | 02 | 03 pt1 | 03 pt2 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12

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