heroin addiction

You are more than your circumstances.  

Richard Johnson from Springfield, MA, shares the “scenic route” he took to turn his life around from drugs, alcohol and incarceration to Program Director of the New North Citizens' Council, Overdose Prevention Master Trainer and Harm Reductionist, and member of several State, Regional, and Local Planning and Advisory boards.

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 From Enforcer to Evangelist - A revisit with our friend Ocho, aka Michael Ochotorena.  Ocho openly talks about his past life as a gang member, heroin addict, loan shark enforcer, time in and out of prisons, and his total transformation to a professional actor, director, evangelist, and motivational speaker.  And his most important role as a husband and father.  

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"Cuz that's all God is; is a single cell of Love inside our hearts. And we've forgotten."
[32:43] Maris

Crying at yoga. Falling off of bikes. Hitting children on bikes. Drinking whiskey and smoking Marb Reds. The Untethered Soul. Grounding. It's a coming back. We've forgotten. How can I find more love and compassion? Getting burnout in recovery. The gifts of therapy. Moments change the trajectory of how I interact with the world. The mental battle of saying "yes" to life. Love…always love. Everything is a greater call for love. Love or fear…the only choices. Finding beauty in the suffering. We came here to feel everything. It took being Stripped of every freedom for me to surrender. Upon the shores of darkness there is light. Finding REAL humility and grace. Constant gratitude  Returning to pure innocence and awe of childhood….utter trust. Taking up space and letting go of the outcome. Taste every last drop. 

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Julie Rocco-Jewels courageously shares how she endured sixteen years of heroin addiction, homelssness, the loss of loved ones, and the miracle of her survivial.

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Hear Austin Delgado’s astonishing transformation from addict to pastor. His past led him to a double life–by day, a trusted law firm clerk, by night, a homeless junkie. 

Part 2

Sometimes, getting caught is the best outcome, and with Austin, it’s what helped bring him to his senses and God’s mercy. Hear what happens when Austin opens up the Scriptures and starts on Page 1. Be encouraged as you hear how God changed Austin, dramatically turning him from homeless junkie to pastor. 

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Transformation Life Center, NY

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Hear Austin Delgado’s astonishing transformation from addict to pastor. His past of drugs led him to a double life–by day, a law clerk, by night, a homeless junkie. As God does, He worked in mysterious ways right at Austin’s rock bottom, where Austin’s desperation led him to use Bob Marley songs to pray to God the only way he knew how.

God answered those prayers as Austin’s two worlds soon collided and his fallacy was exposed. Be encouraged as you see how God miraculously heals Austin from his addiction and the lies he tried to hide it with. 

Part 1

Hear the mindset of an addict as Austin takes us through his sad past. Austin shares how he was “utterly enslaved by the needle,” which caused him to lie, cheat and steal for his addiction. See how our times of desperation allow God to do His most amazing work. 

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Transformation Life Center, NY

Teen Challenge USA

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From Retreat Behavioral Health, Grace Shober and Maggie Hunt review the film “Four Good Days,” the story of a mother and daughter and their battle with substance abuse disorder. The Movie Mavens, this time on The Behavioral Corner.

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High Art is a fabulous yet ultimately tragic story of two star-crossed lovers. Syd (Radha Mitchell), a struggling/aspiring editor at a high end photography magazine, meets Lucy (Ally Sheedy) almost by accident. Lucy, as it turns out, is a has-been yet still talented photographer who Syd quickly sees as her way to the top. However, both women are in relationships: Lucy with fading German actress Greta (Patricia Clarkson), Syd with milquetoast James (Gabriel Mann).  Lucy and Syd fall in love and push each others' careers, only to meet a tragic end. 

We talk about so many things in this episode, from poststructuralism to relationships to queer death in film & so much more!

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Let's talk about getting sober young and what has come from it!
It started with heroin addiction and ended with him now running his own business. Andrew tells us how he made it to where he is today. 
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For many, coming out to your loved ones is often a difficult decision.  For Tyrone Best, our guest this time on the Behavioral Corner,  being queer wasn’t the only secret he needed to share, his growing heroin addiction was another.

LGBTQ+ issues. Come out on the Behavioral Corner.

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Generational learning and ancestral trauma run deep in families. It's not even something I gave much thought to before becoming an Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist.

In episode 37, Angela shared how the lessons her mom was taught were passed down generations, impacting her life ten-fold.

It takes courage to break the cycle of generational learning because it takes action and deep, internal work to address it.

In this week's episode, I talk more about my takeaways and reflections from Angela's episode and also from Shandra's episode, where she shared about her memory loss.

I share today, my reflections about the impact of not connecting the dots of our grief to our behaviors and about what's in a name.

Angela and Shandra both had to find their way back home to themselves, in ways that required each of them to address what they thought was the truth. They found what was true for themselves and, in my personal experience of having done the same, have felt more at home in my own skin than I ever have.

We are all just walking each other home (a quote I read not long ago). And, at the same time, finding our way back to ourselves, too. 

Resources:

• Ep. 37 Angela Williams
• Ep. 38 Shandra Shultz

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Based on the experiences she had in the first decade of her life, Angela was destined for a life of struggle, and, as her mom declared - die with a needle in her arm by the time she was 16. This prophecy nearly came true more than once. Instead, she got her Ph.D..

A life of trauma, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by her mother led to early motherhood, heroin addiction, looking for love in all the wrong places, and losing her son to her own mother who put him in foster care. It would take over a decade for her to get her son back.

As her book describes, she was a child that fell through the cracks of the system. And, nearly paid with her life for it. Her story is a hero's journey where she paved her own path out of living hell.

Connect with Angela:

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• Book: Snakes and Ladders

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In this episode:

We Connect Health Management

Harm Reduction Works

Addiction as a learning disorder

NY Harm Reduction Educators

Narcotica podcast episode with Harm Reduction Works founders

Portugal

Oregon and Washington new drug laws

Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari

Switzerland Rx Heroin

Canada Rx Heroin

Recovery Community Organizations (Google this with your state to find one near you!)

Rich Roll

Robert Delude is the host of the None of Your Business Podcast, where he talks to his entrepreneurial guests about anything but their business (you can check out an earful I gave him about my own personal struggles and successes in an upcoming episode), but today, I flip the script on him to get him to talk about why he is so focused on helping others climb out of dark places in life. He shares his story of a chaotic childhood where he didn't think he fit in.  It was only when he first got high at 12 yrs old that he felt better.  This need to detach from his insecurities became a need to get high.  This quickly turned into a decade of selling drugs, toxic relationships and hiding his true self from anyone he knew. 

It was only when an older friend who got recovery took him under his wing was he really able to stay on a path through recovery. He is now forging ahead, feeling more confident, working on himself, fleeing from people who tap into his codependency or ignite his self-sabotaging.  

His story isn't finished, but it's an inspiration as to what can happen and how good life can be when you start to fight the dark emotions, keep sticking with what you know works, and allow others to care about you. 

You can hear Robert bring other people's stories of success to life on the None of Your Business Podcast on Apple Podcasts and anywhere else you love to listen! 

You can find Robert on the socials:

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If you happen to be struggling with addiction, here are a couple of FREE  nationwide resources:

Alcoholics Anonymous 

Narcotics Anonymous

Smart Recovery

The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Services

or Call 211 in your area to find local resources - rehabs, therapists, free groups and other outreach services.  If you're struggling, help is available. 

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Keep kickin' that chaos out of your life! 

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When Dr. Joseph Morgan worked in addiction medicine, his clinic wouldn’t even admit patients if their primary substance was cannabis. Years later, he developed a treatment protocol to treat opioid addicts with cannabis.

“CBD will reduce cravings, whether it's for cigarettes, whether it's for heroin or cocaine. THC has impacts on the endogenous opioid system to get the body to release its own opioids,” Dr. Morgan said in an interview on The Cannabis Enigma podcast. “There's a lot of benefits for using cannabis and THC to treat opioid addiction.”

Dr. Morgan has brought cannabis research to a host of unexpected and fascinating areas — including as a possible treatment for chemical warfare exposure. He also found a way to conduct cannabis research that bypasses the impossible restrictions imposed by federal cannabis prohibition in the United States.

“Delta-9-THC, the main psychoactive component is actually legal, if it is synthetic,” he explained. Using legal versions of the chemical components of cannabis, he reconstructs the plant’s active ingredients in order to study its effects in rodents — and himself.

“I also had it prescribed to me as compound pharmacy, starting with dronabinol. The pharmacist wanted to see all the certificates of analysis, and I gave him the original stock bottles...and he said he would be able to do that. And so, I have basically a legal cannabis mimic prescribed to me as a liquid.”

Dr. Morgan also explained how one of more notorious side effects of cannabis can actually be a positive aspect for some medical patients.

“Short-term memory loss is a negative property when you're having a conversation — you forget what you're talking about — but when it helps you to forget about pain, forget about thinking about pain, and especially in the setting of endometriosis, it's a very positive property,” he said.

Dr. Joseph Morgan will be speaking at the CannX Conference on October 26-28, 2020.

In the second segment of the episode, Associate Policy Coordinator of Americans for Safe Access, Andrew Coon, discusses the hurdles pediatric cannabis patients and their families face in schools. With so many states declaring the areas around schools “drug free zones,” it makes it very difficult for pediatric cannabis patients to administer their medicine during school hours — a problem that most other medications do not pose.

Edited and mixed by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man. Produced by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man and Matan Weil. Music by Desca. The Cannabis Enigma podcast is a co-production of The Cannigma and Americans for Safe Access.

In this week's episode of Decide Your Destiny, Chris Reed, President Of New Directions Addiction Recovery Services, shares his story of becoming addicted to heroin, overdosing 3 times in a week, becoming sober, creating multiple successful businesses, and giving back to the recovery community by providing sober living homes and founding treatment facilities. This is an interview that you do not want to miss.

Get In Touch With Chris:
Phone #: 847-307-1143
IG: @reed0909
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New Directions Addiction Recovery Services
Northern Illinois Recovery Center

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Episode Topics
1:25 = What was your childhood like
4:03 = First time drinking
6:08 = How quickly did you go from experimenting to unmanageable
12:23 = When did you feel like you started to have a problem
15:30 = Getting prescribed oxycontin
22:56 = What it was like overdosing on heroin the 1st time
24:25 = Never wanting to do heroin again to doing it 8 hours later
30:26 = Going to a 12 step meeting and kick-starting recovery
35:03 = Top things that kept you sober in the first year
37:08 = How to help a struggling family member
42:19 = From overdosing 3 times in a week to a successful businessman
46:24 = Screwed out of $25K at 20 years old & starting a biz out of spite
48:35 = How the sober bar The Other Side was created
57:37 = From about to shut down to massive funding and 2 sober homes
1:07:38 = How to take action when you feel unprepared
1:10:00 = Shifting careers to your passion
1:15:55 = What would you tell someone who is feeling stuck right now

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In this special Episode, Dayna sits down with award winning director Ondi Timoner, to talk about her latest documentary film, Coming Clean, which addresses the opioid crisis happening in the country right now. 

Coming Clean recently premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival, and is will be making it's way through other film fests this year. 

Learn more about those dates and other details on the film by visiting the movie website: ComingCleanMovie.com

Check out the full cast Q&A special at the Sidewalk Film Festival on Facebook Live this Friday, August 28, at 12p PT/3p ET. Follow the link here. 

Coming Clean is brought to by Interloper Films. 

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