Rob Lohman – Alcohol and Drugs Became My Master- Not Anymore
Rob Lohman’s rap sheet includes alcohol and drug addiction, gambling addiction, divorce, bankruptcies, mental health and suicide ideation, prison, recovery and transformation. Rob’s drinking career started at age 14 which lead to some very dark...
Ryan Skinner – Addiction and Deadmen on Vacation
Ryan Skinner is currently the co-owner of the Woburn based Summit Financial Partners. His journey into and slow burn out of a hell of multiple addictions is living proof that with deep faith, the encouragement...
Steve Mason – Actor/Stunt Performer/Author and Motivational Speaker
Steve Mason is a stunt performer, author, actor and speaker who believes in “simply doing the RIGHT thing!” Steve lost his father to suicide when he was an 8 year old boy and he found...
Meghan Fialkoff – I Am Working for a Drug Free World
Meghan is an advocate for drug education. She is a public speaker, brand ambassador and event producer. Since 2006, she has been the Executive Director of the Foundation for a Drug Free World of the...
Norman T – Recovered Addict Story – Now Helping Others
Norman is too young to have experienced all he has. Starting at age 13, smoking weed; his addiction led him down a dark path including a shooting that took the life of one of his...
KC Armstrong, Former Howard Stern Cast & Producer Tells His Recovery Story
K.C. Armstrong got his start on the Howard Stern Show — first as an intern then as a cast member and producer. Now he is now a radio personality in his own right as the...
Trisha Posner – Author of “The Pharmacist of Auschwitz”
By all rights, Trisha could have turned to drugs or alcohol. She grew up in a time when it was not pleasant to be Jewish. She survived bullying and religious discrimination. So at a young...
Jennifer Gimenez – From Celebrity and Maxim Model to Addict to Mentor
Jennifer Gimenez was discovered at age 14 and became a super model and super star in Hollywood. Surrounded by a fast-paced Hollywood lifestyle and unprepared for the trappings of fame, Jenn eventually found herself at...
The Addiction Podcast – Point of No Return – Welcome and An Update
This episode is about the podcast. It features the host – Joanie Sigal – and the producer – Steve Sigal – talking about how and why the podcast was started and how it has progressed...
Wes Geer – KORN Rock Star’s Addiction, Recovery and “Rock to Recovery” To Help Others
Wes Geer is a rock star – literally and figuratively. He is an American guitar player, songwriter and producer, best known as Wesstyle, a founding member of the band Hed PE, formed in 1994 in...
Theo Fleury – Former NHL Star Player – His Story of Trauma, Drugs, Hope, Healing and Recovery
Theo Fleury is a seven-time NHL all star who won a World Junior Championship, a Canada Cup, an Olympic gold medal and helped the Calgary Flames win their first and only Stanley Cup championship during...
Dan Schneider – The Pharmacist on a Mission Part 2 -True Crime Thriller
In the last episode of the podcast, we talked to Dan about the death of his son Danny. Danny didn’t die of an overdose but rather was murdered while trying to buy drugs. Dan found...
Dan Schneider – The Pharmacist Part 1
In 1999, Dan Schneider – a Louisiana pharmacist – lost his only son to a drug related murder. Unlike, perhaps, what most of us would do, Dan was relentless in pursuing his son’s murderer and...
Tim Ryan – Star of A&E TV Documentary “Dope Man”- From Dope to Hope
Tim Ryan is probably best known as the star of the A&E documentary “Dope Man”. And he is no stranger to addiction. Despite a successful business career, Tim found himself in the grips of heroin...
Connor Miller – Former Heroin Addict – Entrepreneur
This interview is with Connor Miller, an athlete in school, found painkillers. Then graduated to become a heroin addict who got clean from drugs four years ago and since then, he has not looked back....
Robert Imbeault – Author – “Before I Leave You”; A Reason to Live
Robert is a successful entrepreneur and childhood sexual abuse survivor. Straddling the line between poor and destitute, Robert was raised by a single mother in a failing steel town. Robert wrote his book – “Before...
Mike Diamond – Reality TV Star Saving Lives with Spirituality and Inspiration
Mike Diamond is a Television Personality, Director, Life Coach, and Interventionist. Known for his work on the hit TV shows NY Ink and Bondi Ink Tattoo Crew, which was nominated for a Logie Award for Best Reality Series. ...
Dr. Sharif Mohr – An Epidemiologist on Today’s Marijuana and Reports on Coronavirus Effects on Addiction Relapse
Dr. Sharif Mohr is an epidemiologist with Drug Free America Foundation where he collects, analyzes, and interprets epidemiological data on substance abuse trends in order to inform program planning and policy at the local, state,...
Janet Colbert – Champion for the Newborn – Head of STOPP Now
We titled this podcast as Janet being a champion for newborns. This is because she worked as a neonatal nurse and had to treat newborns born addicted to drugs in an ever increasing number...
Shelley Winner – Junkie, Jail Time – Turned Her Life Around Completely
Shelley Winner was a junkie — addicted to crystal meth. 65 gram of the drug was found in her bags when she was caught by the police. Drug possession of more than 50 gram can...
Pamela Seefeld – Are There Really Natural Substitutes for Painkillers
Substance abuse certainly includes the misuse of opioids, which has led to a massive addiction problem around the globe. Pamela Seefeld is a pharmacognosist dealing with just that. So what, you ask, is pharmacognosy? It’s...
Allie Severino – Producer & Host of “DopeSick Nation” now Saving Lives on the Front Lines
A tenacious crusader in today’s drug crisis, Allie Severino is no stranger to addiction–or to the stigma that comes with being an addict. Allie has devoted her life’s work to breaking down the stigma associated...
Nick Ferguson – An NFL Star Rises from the Projects To Educate Youth on Drug Addiction
Nick Ferguson grew up in the inner city of Miami, known as the projects. Within his neighborhood and even his own family, he was aware of the negative effects of drugs and alcohol addiction from...
NY Times Bestselling Author Gerald Posner on his Explosive New Book “Pharma”
In his just released book “Pharma”, a meticulously documented expose of decades of fraud, incompetence, conspiracy and avarice, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the...
James Brown Author – Apology to the Young Addict
Living in San Jose, Brown studied creative writing at San Francisco State University and then attended the University of California, Irvine where he received an MFA degree in creative writing. His first novel, Going Fast , published in a limited edition...
Fabian Padro – Helping Others Live Drug Free Lives
Running a rehab center might not be first and foremost on your list of professions to pursue. However, Fabian Padro – with a background of entrepreneurship and business – became the Executive Director of Narconon...
Youtube Influencer “CG Kid” Tells His Story of Addiction and Recovery
Philip Markoff is an online influencer and thought leader on addiction education; he is known as his alias “CG Kid” and obtained a large audience primarily on YouTube as a vlogger and journalist. He has...
Melissa Bond – The Perils of Prescription Benzodiazepines
Melissa Bond is author of an upcoming memoir about her unintentional addiction to the Ativan her doctor prescribed for insomnia. Melissa was prescribed Ativan for pathological insomnia she experienced after the birth of her second...
Darren Prince, Celebrity Sports Super-Agent- His Fall and Recovery
Darren Prince is a prominent sports and celebrity agent and global advocate for addiction and recovery. As a leading authority in this space, his insights have been featured in WSJ, NYT, USA Today, CNN and...
Michael DeLeon – Drugs Almost Killed Me – I Won’t Let That Happen to Others
Michael Deleon is an ex-offender and former addict and gang member. After 12 years in prison he finally had his “point of no return”, and he became determined to ensure that no other child in...