Advocates & Activists

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 st...

Wes Geer is a rock star - literally and figuratively. He founded the band HedPE and was traveling guitarist for KORN. In 2003, Wes was addicted to met...

Theo Fleury is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He twice represented Canada at the Winter Olympics, winning a gold medal in 2002. Aft...

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 ...

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 rele...

Robert is a successful entrepreneur and childhood sexual abuse survivor. Straddling the line between poor and destitute, Robert was raised by a singl...

Mike Diamond, former reality TV star, motivational speaker/author, and celebrity interventionist. Being 13+ years sober himself, Mike shares his know...

Janet is not only an activist, she is truly a "champion for newborns". This is because she worked as a neonatal nurse and had to treat newborns born a...

Shelley Winner was introduced to alcohol by her dad at age 11. Her drug and alcohol use grew from there to trafficking in drugs in her 30s. She was ...

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 de...

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 negativ...

In his just released book "Pharma", a meticulously documented expose of decades of fraud, incompetence, conspiracy and avarice, award-winning journali...