Stories of Addiction
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Christian - 15 Months of Sobriety After A Lifetime Of Alcoholism
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christian, 45, has been at the Gault House Sober Living Environment for over a year. Christian has been addicted to alcohol, weed and a little bit of...
Carlos - Alcohol, Cannabis, And Psychedelics
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carlos, 45, grew up in the East Bay and Northern California. In his teenage years, after numerous Grateful Dead shows and experimentation with using a...
Jeff K Has Good Times Hiking To Pick Mushrooms But Bad Times With Alcohol And Meth
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff K’s best times with drugs consisted of hiking trips where he and his friends went hunting for psychedelic mushrooms. He remembers it as a fun e...
Elijah - Seeking Clarity
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elijah is a 26-year-old Oregonian who began smoking pot as a sophomore in high school. He soon began drinking and eventually turned to cocaine which t...
Robert - Finding Relief In Recovery
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robert is a 61-year-old man from Southern California and a current resident of the Gault Street House Sober Living Environment. The son of alcoholic p...
Twelve Steps To Recovery
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Losing a loved one at a young age and having to grow up in an abusive environment can take its turn for the worse. With this kind of background, Dave,...
Crank, Gangs And Prison
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody has a chance at a better life, even when that chance means reforming your life in prison. In this episode, Paul Noddings interviews Tommy wh...
Jail And Prison Caused Life Change
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The great Nelson Mandela once said, “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” T...
J.J. - Alcohol And Meth
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dysfunctional family life tends to manifest for some people into addiction. Having learned he was adopted at a very young age, J.J. has since tagged h...
Don’t Give Up On Hope!
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A 26-year-old male shares his journey from alcohol in middle school to heroin in his mid-twenties and how his life fell apart. This is a powerful inte...
Professional Mother Struggling With Addiction
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea did not start using drugs until her twenties. She married and had children but she lost these to drugs and alcohol. Andrea has lived in her car...
Beating People Up While High On Drugs
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Luke had very little structure in his early teens. Smoking weed occasionally at eleven years old led to smoking pot heavily at thirteen. Luke is a big...
Meth And Mother Of Two Boys
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Katie was an athletic teenager, winning a national championship for springboard diving. A back injury led to too much idle time and Katie used that ti...
Skateboarding On Heroin
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sterling is a 34-year old male from Santa Cruz, California. He talks honestly about this addiction to heroin (and use of other drugs) that lasted for ...
Heather - Cocaine and Alcohol
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Heather had ambitions of becoming a doctor. However, too much alcohol caused her to redirect her goals towards becoming a paramedic. After several yea...
Whitney, Beautiful Woman Suffers Heroin Addiction
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Whitney is a very attractive, slim, blonde, blue-eyed, white woman; not the typical look associated with severe drug addiction. Whitney had her wisdom...
Domestic Violence And Divorce Empower Alcohol Addiction
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mike's parents divorced when he was eight years old. Their domestic violence affected him. He was drinking hard at twelve years old and looking for a ...
Hayley Does Cocaine While Working At The District Attorney's Office
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hayley was adopted as a baby to loving and caring parents. She did not party in high school; her early adulthood started well. At the age of 23, Hayle...
Mike's Heroin Share
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mike started using alcohol at age fifteen and progressed quickly to ecstasy, cocaine, norco, roxy and heroin. Mike was expelled from high school two m...
Michelle - Bad Parenting, Child Sexual Molestation, Alcoholic And Student Loan Debt - Honest And Positive Attitude
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle is a single woman aged 29. Her parents did not provide a good environment for her and her siblings growing up. At age eleven, Michelle's uncl...
Steve Alcoholic - Suicide By Alcohol: Steve Used Marijuana As A Gateway Drug To Alcohol
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Steve used marijuana as a gateway drug to alcohol. He started using marijuana at age thirteen with an older brother and some friends. By age fifteen, ...
Kendra - Back Pain Pills Heroin Homeless Recovery: A Thirty-Four-Year-Old Woman Shares Her Ten-Year Journey Of Back Pain Pills, Heroin, Homelessness And Recovery
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Kendra, a thirty-four-year-old woman who shares her ten-year journey of back pain pills, heroin, homelessness and recovery. Kendra’s emotions a...
Marty: Blood Cancer To Heroin Addiction And Back
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Marty, a 31-year-old male, talks about his real-life experience with heroin addiction and his journey of recovery. He is a client of The Gault House S...
Aquia, A 20-Years Old Female, Started Abusing Alcohol At Age 12
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Born to a teenage mother, Aquia, an African American female who is now 23 years old, started abusing alcohol at age 12 when she felt her mother loved ...
Ivy’s Heavy Use of Alcohol and Pills
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ivy’s recovery from addiction was a long journey that started when she first got hooked on alcohol at the age of sixteen. Her relationship with alco...
Clara Experience with Alcohol, Cocaine and Heroin
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Insecurity is often the factor that leads to addiction and abuse of drugs. Growing up with Tourette’s, Clara found that smoking weed was an outlet f...
Overcome And Recover In A Sober Living Environment
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Overcoming and recovering from an addiction is never easy. That is, if you keep choosing to do it alone. There are many individuals who travel down th...
Stefan, A Story About Heroin Addiction, Shoplifting And Recovery
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Curiosity plays a big role in every aspect of our lives. Stefan’s heroin addiction began with him being curious about drugs. He knew that he needed ...
Getting Out Of The Spiral Of Addiction. The Story Of Amanda The Bartender
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Addiction comes to some of us like a wave of an innocent hand, or a margarita on our 15th birthday. Amanda’s spiral of addiction started like this a...
Food Addiction, Twelve-Step Program To Recovery with Michelle Goldberger
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alcohol addiction starts when everything goes black after that first drink and all you want is to keep drinking even when you know that it’s the wro...
A Conscious Connection With A Higher Power, Steps 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, & 12 Of The 12 Step Program with Paul and Dave
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Steps 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, & 12 of the 12 Step Program will let us admit the nature of our wrongdoings. These steps help us to prepare to tell the truth t...
Self Honesty And Forgiveness, Steps 4, 8 and 9 of The 12 Step Program with Paul and Dave
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Paul and Dave have a friendly discussion about Steps 4, 8 and 9 of the 12 Step Program. These three steps are related to each other because they deal ...
Personal Thoughts On The First Three Steps Of The 12 Step Program with Paul and Dave
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The 12 Step Program to drug recovery is like taking a plane ride where you think you’re flying alone, but in reality you’ve got company on this jo...
The First Three Steps Of Drug Recovery: Hope, Faith And Trust
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The path to drug recovery has always been using the 12 Step Program to help change the lives of addicts. Mastering the first three steps: hope, faith ...
Sober Living Home Operator Mark Fredrickson
19 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When a recovering addict keeps thinking that he will always be a victim of drug abuse, then the change that everyone is expecting to happen will not h...
The Phases of Getting Away from Heroin with Mitch Russo
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Being in high school and playing in a rock band, Mitch Russo started using heroin at the young age of 16. Getting away from heroin wasn’t easy, but ...
Brandon Part 3 Heroin Meth Cocaine Weed Alcohol
05 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon discusses his addiction and recovery from addiction. In Part 3, Brandon talks about how he is feeling after one year of sobriety and what his ...
Brandon Part 2 Heroin Meth Cocaine Weed Alcohol
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Brandon on his addiction and his recovery from addiction. Part 2 covers the amount of heroin that Brandon was injecting and the early s...
Brandon Part 1 Heroin Meth Cocaine Weed Alcohol
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Brandon about his addiction and recovery from addiction. In Part 1 we talk about his slide into addiction. To learn more about recovery...
Dave's Story of Addiction, Part 3
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Sober Living Environment expert, Paul Noddings interviews a man he refers to as Dave One-Leg. In Part 3 of Dave's story, hear how ...
Dave's Story of Addiction, Part 2
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Sober Living Environment expert, Paul Noddings interviews a man he refers to as Dave One-Leg. In Part 2 of Dave's story, hear how ...
Dave's Story of Addiction, Part 1
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Sober Living Environment expert, Paul Noddings interviews a man he refers to as Dave One-Leg. In Part 1 of Dave's story, hear ...
Intro to Stories of Addiction Podcast
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Introduction episode of the Stories of Addiction Podcast with an overview of what you can expect from this show. To learn more about recov...