Episodes

People are touting the new drug Kratom as the solution to Suboxone addiction, but did you know that Suboxone was touted as the solution to Methadone; Methadone to Heroin and Heroin to Morphine?  Kratom is a drug.  In fact the FDA has just...

There's really nothing new in the field of substance abuse and nothing that Narconon hasn't seen.  Having said that some addicts are now cooking up meth in their own homes as an alternative to heroin but the highs and lows of meth are...

Rony grew up among the gangs in Miami.  Introduced to drugs by his cousin, he rapidly moved from marijuana to heavier drugs.  After a stint in the US Navy, he started abusing Xanax which ended his Navy career.  Now Rony has completed...

When people think of drug or alcohol addiction, often the addict is thought of as the victim.  However, the real victim, we feel, are those close to the addict because they live with the fear that the addict will overdose, or get arrested, or...

This podcast is an interview with Pinellas County Sheriff Robert Gualtieri.  Sheriff Gualtieri has been dealing with drugs for decades in this area and so has a law enforcement perspective on the problem.  However, expecting law enforcement...

This podcast is Zach's story.  Zach started with marijuana at age 15 and eventually moved onto heavier street drugs.  He also ended up on various psychiatric medications which caused him more troubles than the street drugs.  Zach has...

The holidays can be a very stressful time for addicts and their loved ones.  We hope, if you are a loved one, that you get your addicted loved one into treatment sooner rather than later so that this can be the last holiday season of addiction...

In September of this year, the 19 year old son of Admiral James Winnefeld (ret) died from an overdose of heroin mixed with Fentanyl.  He had just come through 15 months of in-patient rehab and was embarking upon a new career as an EMT. ...

When Pam Bondi was elected as Florida's attorney general in 2010, Florida was #1 in the country for pill mills - places where you could literally walk in with cash and walk out with pain pills.  Dealers came from all over the country to buy the...

We have lost some amazing artists due to drug and alcohol addiction.  We hope that any of our listeners who either are artists and addicted or who know artists that are addicted will take note and get help for their friend and loved one or...

Once again we send the message that to wait until after the hoidays to get help for your addicted friend or family member is a really bad idea.  Families will forgive the addict but should they forget?  Should the addict forget?

Often friends and families of addicts say that they want to wait until after the holidays to get treatment for their addicted friend or family member.  This is not a good idea because the person will be getting high while the family is gathered...

One of the things we do on this podcast is offer solutions and resources to the problem of drug and alcohol abuse.  Today's podcast is an interview with Kent Runyon from Novus Detox in Florida.  Novus has a personalized approach to substance...

Often families want to wait until after the New Year to get their loved one into treatment but NOW is the time to get help to your family member or friend or yourself.  What we are offering is life without drugs.  What better gift could...

Today's podcast is an interview with Dave Aronberg, State Attorney for Palm Beach County in Florida.  Dave has worked diligently throughout his career to stem the rising drug epidemic that is affecting Florida, just like the rest of the...

Drug Free America Foundation is fighting the good fight against drug abuse in this country.  DFAF and it's sister organization - Save Our Society from Drugs (SOS) work to defeat drug legalization attempts; promote sound drug policies; and prevent...

There is an organization - Drug Free World - and they provide hard hitting, true information about drugs and why to avoid them.  The booklets, DVDs, and teachers package are all free.  This podcast is an interview with the President of Drug...

This week's podcast is an interview with Pamela Seefeld.  Pamela is a practicing pharmacist and pharmacognosy consultant.  She offers natural solutions to things like pain.  There is no question that chronic pain is debilitating and can...

Started on psychiatric drugs at age 11, Christian moved to marijuana, opiates and heroin and by age 17 was shooting heroin.   Christian just finished the Narconon program after several 12 step programs and is now clean, happy and ready to...

The opioid epidemic has spun off so many other "epidemics" that it is now being referred to as a syndemic.  We have a syndemic in this country.  Drugs are being used to "cure" addiction, which is just nutty.  But there need to be...

Is legalization the answer to the drug addiction problem?

It's sad when insurance companies will pay for addictive drugs but not for drugs which might work as pain killers or sedatives but which are more expensive and then not pay for the rehab that is needed because of the more addictive drugs.  Listen...

This is a true story of alcohol addiction and redemption.  This is Cass' story and it's a hard hitting case of alcohol addiction.  Cass is clean and sober now and able to pursue his dreams.  If you think that you can't be addicted to...

The holidays are rapidly approaching - it's September already - and often families of addicts want to wait until after the holidays to get the addict into rehab.  This is a really bad idea and Jason explains why that is.  If you have a...