Hard Knox Talks: Your Addiction Podcast
Episodes
Addiction Success Stories w/guest, Philip Cargill
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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A Story of Surviving the Chaos of Addiction in The Family.
29 Jul 2022
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Send us a textPatricia is no stranger to the ravages of substance use disorders and gang life. She has lost 12 family members, most recently as 2 year...
The Front Line: Harm Reduction Interview with Canadian Advocate, Ronnie Grigg.
23 Jul 2022
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Interview with Person In Recovery Chalie Benoit
19 Jul 2022
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Roe v. Wade: Dr. Craig Swainey Speaks Up.
16 Jul 2022
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Send us a text“This is going to cause a lot of trauma, no doubt about it. We're going to see a big increase in suicides”Dr. Swainey is the Me...
Reality Check: Addiction Interview With FASD Expert, Robbie Seale. Phoenix Fire Ep. 17
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textRobbie is a mother of 4, 3 of whom are adopted and diagnosed with FASD, is an educator on the topic and host of the FASD Family Life Pod...
Clean and Sober That's What's Up: Motivational Recovery Speaker, Dru Hicks.
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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A Message of Hope: Addiction Education with Albertus Project founder, Alex Colyer.
09 Jul 2022
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Stronger Together: Harm Reduction Interview With Tyla Savard. Phoenix Fire Ep. 15
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Prescription Strength Hell: Interview With Addict in Recovery, Dr. Craig Swainey.
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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The Saskatchewan Methadose Switch: A Stark Warning, With Garth Mullins.
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Finding A Way: Addiction Recovery Interview With Amy Franks. Phoenix Fire Ep. 14
01 Jul 2022
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Jail House Preacher: Addiction Recovery Interview With Ronnie Mardis
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text"They offered me 35 years for my drug charges. I didn’t take the plea and I have no idea what will happen."Ronnie went from ...
There Was A Statue Of Jesus: Addiction Recovery Interview With Jocelyn Stockwell.
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text“I wanted out, but I didn’t know how to get out.”Jocelyn's story takes us from a wonderful home life growing up,to homeless a...
Out of Chaos Comes Beauty: Renowned Ibogaine Counsellor, Anders Beatty. Phoenix Fire Ep 13.
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text"I resented being told that I had to be called an addict for the rest of my life and had no sovereignty or autonomy. I had enough w...
Anger Management: Interview With Person In Recovery, Jamie Downie.
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Truth Trip: Interview With Underground Psychedelic Practitioner, Garyth Moxey.
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Interview With Advocate and Person in Recovery, Amanda Flowers. Phoenix Fire Ep 12
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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A Life Recovered: Interview With an Addict Named Matt.
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Police Shot my Son: The Story of Carey Rigby-Wilcox and Her Son Steven.
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Epigenetics, Addiction, Concurrent Disorders: Real Talk With Dr. Kim Hellemans. Phoenix Fire Ep 11
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textDr. Kim Hellemans is a teaching professor and Associate Dean of Science at Carleton University, and the co-host of the popular podcast, ...
For My Daughter's Sake: Street Survivor Cara Tatarelli Tells Her Story.
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Sober Motivation Creator and Person in Recovery, Brad Macleod Tells His Story.
04 Jun 2022
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"Rough, Real, And Rugged": Ex-Gang Member Chelsey Laliberte Speaks up. Phoenix Fire Ep 10
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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@therealsharkshady2323: Recovery Influencer Trey Harbaugh Tells His Story.
31 May 2022
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Live, Laugh, Naloxone: Harm Reduction TikTok Influencer, Chauncie Beaston.
27 May 2022
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Prison to PhD: Woman in recovery, Dr. Sharon Acoose speaks. Phoenix Fire Ep. 9.
26 May 2022
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White Collar Drunk: The Story of Jamie Miley
24 May 2022
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My Plan B Was Death: Family Member of Overdose Victim Tells His Story.
21 May 2022
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Send us a textDarren was already struggling with substances when he tragically lost his brother to drug poisoning.That sent him into the abyss.“My p...
Phoenix Fire Ep. 7, We're Done Asking Nicely: Sask Substance Use Advocate Takes the Stage.
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textDr. Barbara Fornssler has had her own experience with substances.And that lived experience gave her eyes to see the social injustices ta...
Psychedelics Saved Me: One Man's Trip To A Safer Way.
17 May 2022
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Send us a text“I was going to end up dead or in jail if I didn’t change my ways. Plant medicines helped me realize that.”Chris Jordan spent a li...
Stigma Kills: The Fight For Inclusive Recovery
15 May 2022
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Send us a text“I remember there was where the most rational thought I could produce is that the world would be better off without me.”Ryan grew up...
Fallen From Grace: Lawyer in Recovery Tells Her Story.
15 May 2022
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Send us a textAfter living on the streets in Vancouver, Nicole pulled her life together and successfully completed law school. Within a short timefram...
The Life and Times of an Addict Named Eric.
14 May 2022
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Send us a text“I had a rock tied to my waist walking into a river. If someone hadn’t seen me. I wouldn’t be here.”Eric spent his life battling...
Addict On the Run: My Cross Country Trek to A Safer Way.
14 May 2022
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Send us a text "My life was a chaotic abyss, I didn't know how bad it was until I tried to quit."Tamara ran across Canada trying to fi...
Prescription Padding: Over Prescribed Woman Tells Her Story.
13 May 2022
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Send us a text“The doctor didn’t seem to care that I was struggling he just kept prescribing pain meds and told me to get out of his office”Jenn...
Standing on a Bridge: The Day I Chose Suboxone Over Suicide. Phoenix Fire Ep. 5
11 May 2022
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Send us a textBorn into addiction, and raised by a guardian she called grandma, Tee managed to steer clear of substances until, at the age of 18, she ...
My Life With Karma: The Story of an Addicted Police Officer and His Dog.
30 Apr 2022
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Send us a text“I got arrested and taken to jail in my uniform. I was paraded around the precinct in handcuffs.”Travis Sackett was arrested on duty...
Called to action by God - Clinical Addictions Specialist, Joy Rutledge. Phoenix Fire Ep. 4
30 Apr 2022
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Send us a textIn her travels around the world, and close to her heart, Joy couldn't help noticing the suffering of people struggling with mental ...
Living Like the First 100: Old School AA Saved My Life.
30 Apr 2022
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Send us a text“I was existing and not living, I wanted to die. I was done with it all”Justin was past the point of return, so he thought.Opiate ad...
The Addictions Research Resistance: Fighting for Reasonable Health Care.
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text“When I was interviewing HIV patients, I learned very quickly that HIV was the least of their worries.”Maryellen is an Addictions Re...
I Didn't Have an Off Switch: Recovering Alcoholic Tells Her Story. Phoenix Fire Episode 3
20 Apr 2022
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Send us a text“I was who he said I was. If he said jump, I asked how high. I didn’t believe I measured up – a belief I’ve carried my whole lif...
Warrior of Hope: Substance Use Advocate Speaks Up. Phoenix Fire Episode 4
20 Apr 2022
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Send us a textKelsey is 16 years in recovery, a pharmacist, a mother of 4, and activist on many fronts with an insider's look at the cold-hard nu...
From Prison to Parenthood: An Addicts Journey Home.
20 Apr 2022
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Send us a text“I lost everything, kids, family, health. All I had left was the drugs in my hand.”Chantal's rock bottom was Pinegrove Correcti...
One Pill Kills: The Parents Speak Up. Phoenix Fire Ep. 2
12 Apr 2022
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Send us a textLea and Todd Hoiland’s world was shattered on July 8, 2021 – the day they lost their vibrant 20-year-old daughter, Alyssa, to a fent...
I Couldn't Stop Using: The Story of One Basement to Another.
12 Apr 2022
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Send us a text"I was spiritually bankrupt and I wanted to die."Shane started using heavy in Grade 7.Years later he found Crack in Calgary, A...
Higher Purpose: A Story of Finding the Eternal Flame.
08 Apr 2022
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Send us a text“I was trying to escape horrors I faced as an intergenerational residential school survivor with drugs and alcohol. It didn’t work.”...
A Shot in the Dark: From Heroin to Healer.
06 Apr 2022
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Send us a text“I was shooting heroin at gas pumps hoping the cops would pick me up. They never did.”Jakob was dealing drugs at 13 years old. Using...
Harm Reduction Unmasked: A Search to End the Madness. Phoenix Fire Ep.1
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textMost of the 464 overdose deaths in Saskatchewan in 2021 alone (a record setting year) were deemed accidental and most were linked to Fen...
Trap House Testimony: Recovering Ex-Gang Member Tells Her Story.
31 Mar 2022
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Send us a text"I buried myself in a pile of clothes, they found me. I'll never forget the ski mask and the eyes looking at me. I knew those ...
Flames of Survival: Recovering Fentanyl Addict Speaks Up.
24 Mar 2022
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Send us a text"Welcome to the shit show."Kea tried meth at 14 years old,A stripper by 17.From gang cultural gang violence to fraud to runnin...
A Warrior from Ashes: The Origin Story of Men of the North
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text“The worst thing I ever heard was my mom screaming when she saw me shackled in an orange jumpsuit. I was 13 years old.”Christopher c...
Run Away Girl: Recovering Alcoholic Tells Her Story.
12 Mar 2022
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Send us a text"Falling from a bridge drunk left me badly injured, and that led to far worse destruction."Stacey ran all the way to England t...
Harm Reduction: Guns and Gangs Cop Speaks Up.
11 Mar 2022
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Send us a textFrom undercover drug enforcement to the guns and gangs unit of the Saskatoon City Police Service, there isn't much Constable Matt I...
Suicidal Thoughts: My Comprehensive Guide to Surviving Myself.
11 Mar 2022
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Send us a text“I tried to stab my brother, then I went for the cop's gun. I was just done with it all.”Todd is a podcaster and person in reco...
One Puff and I Went Down: Regina Overdose Survivor Speaks Up.
04 Mar 2022
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Send us a text“I woke up on a slab, they brought me back. I did some red shit I never saw before, one puff and I went down.”Joe is a person in rec...
Regina Woman Stigmatized by Doctor Tells Her Story.
03 Mar 2022
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Send us a text"Because of my past, I was left to suffer, it's really wrong and really unfair."Melanie is a former prostitute and person...
Boots on the Ground: Sask Addictions Counsellor Speaks up.
22 Feb 2022
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Send us a text“I ended up in Lloydminster, alone in an apartment, Winchester in my mouth. Couldn’t find the bullets."Kirk is an Addictions Co...
Safe Consumption Saves Lives: Saskatchewan Union of Nurses President Speaks up.
22 Feb 2022
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Send us a text"Safe consumption sites are not a crutch, and I'm getting sick of explaining that."Tracy cannot make her message more cle...
You Shouldn't Need to Qualify for Help: CAPSA Vice President Speaks Up.
22 Feb 2022
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Send us a text"I never decided to get better, I just gave up on dying."Gord Garner smoked crack for 30 years.Today he is the Vice President ...
A Parent Problem: Substance use and parenthood
10 Feb 2022
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Send us a text“To address addiction in our society, we need to teach parents to cope with everyday stress.”Danielle is a qualified Parent Mediator...
Substance use and Politics: Sask Community Leaders Speak up.
03 Feb 2022
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Send us a textJudy Pelly is a well-respected Knowledge Keeper and advocate in Saskatoon, SK.Everett Hindley is the Minister of Mental Health and Addic...
Bullet in a Bottle: The Story of Clint and Joanie Malarchuck.
03 Feb 2022
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Send us a text"He said: 'this is what I want to do' and I remember, he stood up and that's when the gun went off."Joanie watc...
How to not be an asshole to addicts, with Kayla Demong.
24 Jan 2022
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Send us a text"I came home to broken glass everywhere, and the drug dealers kids were in the middle of this chaos."Kayla walked a dark path ...
Dead People Don't Recover
20 Dec 2021
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Send us a text"He thought he was doing Oxy, he was home alone, he didn't stand a chance."Petra Shulz lost her son to an overdose in 201...
Surviving addiction in a blue collar.
09 Dec 2021
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Send us a text"I knew I was going to fail my second piss test too, I couldn't keep lying, I knew it was over. I went into Colleen's off...
Foster Care Victim Speaks Up.
04 Dec 2021
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Send us a text"I stood on that bridge, thinking about ending the pain. I was 9 years old."Jessica Grew up immersed in addiction."I reme...
Saskatchewan Addictions Research Expert Speaks up.
02 Dec 2021
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Send us a text"In my 25 years researching the traumas of colonization and addiction, the best solution I have ever found came though talking with...
Suicide isn't the solution. Trauma survivor speaks up.
24 Nov 2021
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Send us a textsurvivor speaks up."I was committed and I jumped, but I woke up on the floor. The belt broke."Cody survived a horrific car cra...
Quitting alone doesn't end the pain. Person in long term recovery speaks up.
22 Nov 2021
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Send us a text"I had a visual of stabbing myself in the chest, that's when I realized something was still wrong. I was 2 years sober."A...
From the street to Executive Director. Earl Thiessen tells his story.
10 Nov 2021
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Send us a text"I was homeless for 7 years, my addiction took me there."Earl was a wrestler in his teenage years, Bedford Road Collegiate, Sa...
Talking about underground psychedelic treatment and plant medicine with Tanis Rose!
04 Nov 2021
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Send us a text“Ibogaine is a powerful psychoactive substance, it can stop your heart. I was dying anyway, so I said my goodbyes, and I went into the...
ER doctor speaks up about the overdose crisis and Ketamine treatment.
27 Oct 2021
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Send us a text"During the first wave of the pandemic, we saw more overdose deaths than COVID deaths in Alberta."Marshall works in the emerge...
Notorious Harm Reduction Advocate Garth Mullins Speaks up.
20 Oct 2021
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Send us a text“Us drug users are the only people that you can kill 20,000 of between elections and not even get a mention in the campaign race.”Ga...
Ex-gang member Cheyenne McDonald Speaks up.
14 Oct 2021
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Send us a text"I wouldn't hit him with the hammer, so they made me clean up the blood.""I'll never forget the smell."Che...
Recovered Alcoholic and street survivor Rob Kelly, PhD. tells his story.
08 Oct 2021
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Send us a text"I stabbed my wife 3 times because she wouldn't let me finish my bottle.""Did you finish the bottle?""Yep....
Ex-gang member Beverly Fullerton tells her story from Saskatoon, SK.
29 Sep 2021
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Send us a text"I have a fracture in my skull where they beat me with a hammer. I had to be identified by my fingerprints."Beverly was a shot...
Ex-gang member Rob Kraushaar tells his story from Regina, SK.
22 Sep 2021
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Send us a textGang life, drug dealing, homelessness, needles.Rob's lifestyle ended him up in the hospital, heart valve hanging on by a thread.&qu...
Jacqueline Hoffman, CEO of Prairie Sky Recovery Center tells her story and how she advocates for better services in the workplace.
17 Sep 2021
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Send us a text"I get judged because people don't think I have lived experience."Jacqueline grew up immersed in recovery, but not detach...
Allan Kehler talks about his journey through and out of addiction
08 Sep 2021
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Send us a text"There are still times I don't remember from my childhood."Allan grew up in a Mennonite community.Alcohol wasn't pre...
Rob Tanguay, MD. talks about addictions medicine, harm reduction, and abstinence strategies.
31 Aug 2021
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Send us a text“I remember the onset of the Opioid crisis; nobody saw it coming”Rob Tanguay, MD FRCPC is a doctor in addictions medicine and the fo...
Corey Preston talks about Gang life and how he found his way out.
24 Aug 2021
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Send us a textViewers' discretion advised."This is where the grenade went off when the SWAT team raided us"Scorched walls on the mansio...
Episode 31: BAC Local 1 SK President, Derek Halldorson
18 Aug 2021
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Send us a textDerek grew up with a great family, his passions nurtured and encouraged from a young age.He could play hockey and everyone knew it.His r...
Sharon Acoose Ph.D. talks about her experience with addiction, crime, prison and recovery.
11 Aug 2021
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Send us a textSharon was born into chaos. Molested from 3 years of age, Sharon grew up thinking it was normal to take money for sexual favors. On th...
Childhood trauma, Codependency and Addiction ruled Daina's life, but she found a better way to live.
04 Aug 2021
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Send us a textDaina's journey into trauma started as early as 4 years old. Being violated at such a young age left Daina feeling incomplete and a...
Interview with Portuguese Toxicologist about decriminalization and workplace substance use.
31 Jul 2021
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Send us a textFrom Lisbon, Portugal, Jose remembers what it was like growing up in the midst of a heroin epidemic.He also remembers when Portugal decr...
Mario Ahenakew Talks about gang life and how he turned it all around.
21 Jul 2021
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Send us a textMario remembers what it was like seeing gang members living the life as young as 13 years old. Cars, money, women, he wanted to feel the...
Dr. Barbara Fornssler
12 Jul 2021
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Send us a textBarb grew up with a lot of positive reinforcement despite having a father struggling with alcoholism and a mother who worked a lot. When...
Dwayne talks about his addiction and recovery and how he's making a difference in workplaces.
12 Jul 2021
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Send us a textDwayne Cameron talks about his own journey through addiction and recovery and tells us what he is doing to improve workplace safety cult...