SafeHouse Podcast

Season 6 Episode 12

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.

Bruno J.’s Journey to Hell – Part 1

Season 6 – Episode 12

Welcome to our latest season of Busting Addiction and Its Myths. This is Episode #12 of Season Six.

Thus far, I have shared parts of my story of over 27 years of sobriety and a few years prior to my coming around. Let’s start at the beginning and I promise you it will not be boring.

I was one of the lucky ones, and there were more than a few of us born in Germany after WW II, of refugee parents fleeing the Russian army’s advance against the retreating German forces all the way to the Allied zone.

My family of four, which included my parents and younger brother, ended up in a DP camp, also known as a Displaced Personnel – DP – facility. It housed thousands of refugees from the Baltics, Poland, and other Eastern European countries, driven from their homes in the northern tier of eastern Europe.

The camp my family lived in was located in the British sector, one of three Western ally zones that also included the American and French sectors. The fourth was the Russian sector which nobody in their right mind wanted to be stuck in.

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