SafeHouse Podcast

Season 2 Episode 06

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

The purpose of Safehouse 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.

Brain Damage – Not In My Family

Season 2 – Episode 06

Let’s start with one of the most famous cases involving brain damage, and that is the case involving Aaron Hernandez. Fort those who may not know it and are perhaps tuning in from a country outside the US, Aaron Hernandez was the youngest American football player ever drafted, and at 19, he was already seen as a future superstar and had been awarded a $40 million contract in his second year with a top team in the NFL – the New England Patriots – for the record.

He was a fierce warrior on the field and played hard off the field as well. He was known as a big time marijuana user and boozer even at the University of Florida where he had established himself as a college superstar and part of a crowd of “untouchables” who apparently got away with anything and everything because, you see, Division One college football is the biggest revenue generator you could possibly imagine. And if you’re a national champion, you have the power to recruit the very best high school players in the land.

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