SafeHouse Podcast

Season 6 Episode 13

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.

Bruno J.’s Journey to Hell – Part 2

Season 6 – Episode 13

Welcome to our latest season of Busting Addiction and Its Myths. This is Episode #13 of Season Six.

In Part One, I shared my early life and how my attitude about wanting to evade the consequences of my actions set me up to abuse drugs and alcohol for many years to come.

In Part Two, my journey covers my married home life and my career that eventually took me to New York for a decade of insane highs and lows. Then the fall from grace, from the 26th floor of 1515 Broadway to the streets, then to my wake-up call in Milwaukee.

I spent the first ten years of my job as an ad agency account executive in Chicago where I learned to drink with the best of them. It was great fun and drama much of the time.

The Mad Men TV series feels like a time-compressed version of our reality at the time. The ad business was like that, it really was. The spineless bigmouths, the insecure and arrogant creative types, the tyrannical insecure bosses and clients – it was like that.

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