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.
Episodes
264 episodes
Mini Series 13 - Don't Let Emotions Rule
It's one thing to feel your feelings and quite another to have them rule you.When I was drinking and using, I was ruled by my emotions. I had no filter, no guidance.I bounced between fear and desire. I was afraid of many th...
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Season 113
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Episode 13
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3:00
Mini Series 13 - A Daily Reprieve
One of the things we talk about in our recovery is the idea of “one day at a time”. This is a greater challenge for many in early recovery than it appears. While in treatment, we were kept very busy, and we were super-focused on what we n...
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Season 113
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Episode 12
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3:35
Mini Series 13 - Permanent Sobriety, Achieved One Day At A Time
I asked a wise man in my program his definition of his life's purpose, and he said: “My goal is to stay sober every day of my life, taking one day at a time, and that’s how I’ll make my sobriety permanent.” There’s magic in living one day...
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Season 113
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Episode 11
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2:51
Mini Series 13 - Peer Pressure Can Kill
One of the most difficult things to do is to resist peer pressure to drink or use. Here are some thoughts on how to neutralise that threat.Chances are that the people you thought were your true friends were maybe not. They hung arou...
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Season 113
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Episode 10
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2:58
Mini Series 13 - Get Back On The Horse
In this podcast, we discuss what to do just in case you slip and have yourself a relapse.It is a well-known fact that relapse is characteristic of the disease of addiction and alcoholism. A lucky few make it long term on the first t...
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Season 113
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Episode 9
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2:48
Mini Series 13 - Afraid Of Feeling?
Let’s talk about emotions – how to identify what they are and the importance to your recovery of honestly sharing how you feel.I was taught in treatment that there six primary emotions, and of course, countless nuances of these emot...
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Season 113
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Episode 8
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3:46
Mini Series 13 - The Thinking Revolution
Let’s talk about some of the ways your thinking will change as you get exposed to ideas that may be foreign to you but start to make a lot more sense when you experience the miracle of recovery.You thought you could do this alone an...
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Season 113
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Episode 7
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3:50
Mini Series 13 - The Toolbox
As I alluded to earlier, every person in early recovery needs a toolbox to which he or she can turn and use a tool that could save their sobriety and perhaps even their very lives.In addition to the basics, I’ve already mentioned which ...
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Season 113
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Episode 6
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4:30
Mini Series 13 - Ways To Talk About Addiction
The right way to talk about addiction and/or alcoholism is in the context of: what it was like (how awful was it, really?), what happened (you got so desperate that you finally asked for help) and what it’s like now (you're in recovery and...
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Season 113
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Episode 5
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2:42
Mini Series 13 - Resentment Is The Killer
It is well said and true that resentments are the #1 killer of addicts and alcoholics. If we lead a life of deceit, manipulation and the direct pursuit of pleasure to the exclusion of everything else, we will find ourselves resenting those who ...
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Season 113
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Episode 4
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2:31
Mini Series 13 - Don't Make It A Mountain
There are some aspects of addiction and alcoholism, which are not readily apparent until you see how these diseases infiltrate the thinking of those who are affected. It’s no wonder that the Big Book of AA says this: “Remember we deal with alco...
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Season 113
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Episode 3
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3:15
Mini Series 13 - The Four Pillars
There are four pillars to recovery, and they are: don’t drink or use (between meetings), go to those meetings (several times a week, at least at first) get a sponsor (and follow his or her advice) and work the 12 steps.“Don’t drink ...
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Season 113
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Episode 2
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2:58
Mini Series 13 - The Phone Is Your Lifeline
Let’s talk about the many aspects of relapse prevention. This is incredibly important if you’re just starting out on your journey of recovery. This is when you’re most vulnerable to going back “out there”.Just as iPhones have ...
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Season 113
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Episode 1
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3:09
Special Request - Treatment Doesn't Work or Does It?
Here's our final special episode that we have relaunched as requested by many of our followers.Welcome back to Busting Addiction and its Myths, and we have called this episode Treatment Doesn’t Work, Or Does It?Here’s what we co...
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Season 1001
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Episode 6
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40:18
Special Request - Enabling
Here's one more special episode that has been requested by many of our followers.Let’s talk about enablingIn this episode, we discuss how enabling can inhibit the chances of an addict’s recovery by shielding them from the realit...
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Season 1001
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Episode 5
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30:19
Special Request - What We've Learned So Far
Here we go again with yet another special episode that we have relaunched as requested by many of our followers.It’s a disease, stupid!Paraphrasing a famous political slogan from the US, this episode offers slam-dunk proof that addi...
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Season 1001
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Episode 4
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20:55
Special Request - What's Love Got to Do With It?
This week we have another special episode that we have again relaunched as requested by many of our followers.In this podcast, we reveal that addiction must be treated as the primary disorder, that families need to retain a trained prof...
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Season 1001
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Episode 3
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19:49
Special Request - Addiction is a Family Disease
Here is another special episode that we have relaunched as it is a subject matter that has been requested by many of our followers.In this podcast, we reveal more truths about addiction, in that it makes the whole family unit dysfunctio...
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Season 1001
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Episode 2
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18:42
Special Request - Don't Quit Trying to Quit
We have relaunched this special episode as it is a subject matter that has been requested by many of our followers.In this podcast, we bust the myth that an addict who doesn’t get it the first time is a loser, when in fact he is on his ...
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Season 1001
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Episode 1
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23:45
Mini Series 12 - Addiction Q&A - 7
Q: Why does addiction have such a powerful ripple effect on the family?A: It turns out that the whole family becomes sick as a consequence of alcoholism or drug addiction striking any one individual in the family. Family m...
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Season 112
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Episode 7
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2:42
Mini Series 12 - Addiction Q&A - 6
Q: Do interventions work?A: Yes and no. Interventions come in two categories: professional and family led. Even interventions conducted by professional interventionists may fail if the subject of the intervention refuses t...
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Season 112
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Episode 6
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2:30
Mini Series 12 - Addiction Q&A - 5
Q: Will an addict get the help he needs from a psychiatrist?A: It depends. There are two main factors involved. One is the fact that addicts will often lie to the psychiatrist if the addict is there for reasons other than ...
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Season 112
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Episode 5
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2:22
Mini Series 12 - Addiction Q&A - 4
Q: How knowledgeable are physicians about alcoholism and drug addiction?A: On average, not very. The fact is that fewer than 25% of physicians are given any course work in medical school on alcoholism and addiction. Recogn...
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Season 112
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Episode 4
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2:27
