SafeHouse Podcast

Season 6 Episode 08

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.

Tony and Bruno. Talk It Over – Part 1

Season 6 – Episode 08

Welcome to our latest season of Busting Addiction and Its Myths. This is Episode #8 of Season Six.

This interview of Tony by Bruno J. reveals what Tony’s young life was like as he was heading toward his bottom, and the courageous struggle to get right with himself and his family. Now, at the age of 30 with four years of sobriety under his belt, he shares his recollections so that those who love a still-suffering addict or alcoholic can see that there is always hope for a turnaround to a sane direction.

Bruno J.: “Tony, let’s start with your family, your mom, and your dad. You are an only child, so there must have been a lot of attention paid to you”.

Tony: ” The people closest to you know you really well, so even if there is something the tiniest bit off, they know it right away. Even when I first started drinking at about 18, mom knew instantly that there was something not quite right. I was living in Oxford off-campus, working at a bistro, paying off loans, drinking sometimes. Home on weekends. I was still highly functional.

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