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Giving Voice to Addiction

Recovery.com

15 episodes

1 week ago

This addiction recovery story follows Deonte's transformation from heroin addiction, incarceration, and gang involvement to becoming a peer recovery coach. After multiple stints in prison and a near rock bottom moment involving substance use and lifestyle exhaustion, Deonte shares how MAT (Suboxone), faith, and fatherhood helped him reclaim his life. Explore addiction and mental health treatment options: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Deonte struggled with heroin and opioid add...

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This addiction recovery story follows Deonte's transformation from heroin addiction, incarceration, and gang involvement to becoming a peer recovery coach. After multiple stints in prison and a near rock bottom moment involving substance use and lifestyle exhaustion, Deonte shares how MAT (Suboxone), faith, and fatherhood helped him reclaim his life. Explore addiction and mental health treatment options: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Deonte struggled with heroin and opioid add...

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Episodes (15/15)

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Heroin Addiction & Incarceration to Faith-Based Recovery | An Addiction Recovery Story

This addiction recovery story follows Deonte's transformation from heroin addiction, incarceration, and gang involvement to becoming a peer recovery coach. After multiple stints in prison and a near rock bottom moment involving substance use and lifestyle exhaustion, Deonte shares how MAT (Suboxone), faith, and fatherhood helped him reclaim his life. Explore addiction and mental health treatment options: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Deonte struggled with heroin and opioid add...

1 month ago

33 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Alcohol Addiction & Anxiety to Spiritual Awakening in AA Recovery | An Addiction Recovery Story

Michael shares his raw and powerful addiction recovery story, from numbing emotions with alcohol to rediscovering self-worth through sobriety and spiritual growth. He opens up about battling anxiety, using substances to escape shame, and finding healing in 12-step recovery. A story of transformation, vulnerability, and hope. Explore addiction and mental health treatment options: https://recovery.com Michael shares his raw and powerful addiction recovery story, from numbing emotions with alcoh...

2 months ago

22 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From OxyContin, Alcohol & Depression to Therapy & Recovery Coaching | An Addiction Recovery Story

Hector shares his powerful addiction recovery story of battling OxyContin, codeine, alcohol, and marijuana. From incarceration and homelessness to finding peace in sobriety, therapy, and recovery coaching, Hector’s journey shows that healing is possible for anyone. Explore addiction and mental health treatment options: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Hector struggled with addiction to OxyContin, codeine, alcohol, marijuana, and promethazine. 2. His substance use began in early a...

2 months ago

27 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Cocaine Addiction & Psychosis to Peer Support & Recovery Coaching | An Addiction Recovery Story

In this raw addiction recovery story, Eli shares how a 13-year cocaine addiction led to hallucinations, job loss, and emotional devastation. Hear how a moment of surrender and support from a peer coach turned his life around. His path from psychosis to sobriety is proof that recovery is possible. Explore addiction and mental health treatment options: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Eli struggled with a 13-year cocaine addiction that escalated to daily use and severe psychosi...

2 months ago

23 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

A Guide to Interventions & How To Help Someone With a Drug or Alcohol Addiction

This addiction recovery story features interventionist Sam Davis, who shares deep insights from his personal recovery and decades of guiding over a thousand families through the intervention process. Learn how fear, enabling, and lack of education keep families stuck—and how understanding addiction as a mental and emotional crisis can lead to real healing. Explore mental health and addiction treatment options: https://recovery.com Key Talking Points: 1. Families often act from fear and ...

2 months ago

28 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Cocaine, Methadone & Childhood Trauma to 12-Step Healing | An Addiction Recovery Story

In this powerful addiction recovery story, Sam Davis shares his path from childhood sexual abuse, stuttering, and deep-rooted shame to decades of addiction involving cocaine, pills, and methadone. Hear how trauma shaped his addiction—and how long-term treatment and 12-step recovery finally led him to surrender, healing, and sobriety. Explore mental health and addiction treatment options: https://recovery.com Key Talking Points: 1. Sam was molested at 10, which deeply impacted his self-w...

3 months ago

29 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Alcoholism & Anxiety to Detox & Faith-Based Recovery | An Addiction Recovery Story

Kyle’s addiction recovery story spans decades of alcohol use, mental obsession, and shame. After multiple failed attempts—including aversion therapy and inpatient rehab—he finally found lasting sobriety through a 7-day detox, spiritual surrender, and embracing recovery tools built over 30 years. A powerful sobriety story of self-forgiveness, family healing, and hope. Explore addiction and mental health treatment options: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Kyle began drinking at...

3 months ago

25 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Alcohol & Pill Addiction to Sobriety Through Trauma Recovery | An Addiction Recovery Story

This is a deeply honest addiction recovery story of John, who struggled with alcohol and prescription drug misuse for nearly two decades. He shares how unprocessed childhood trauma, shame, and denial led to cycles of relapse—and how rigorous honesty and trauma therapy finally brought him to sobriety and peace. Explore addiction and mental health treatment options: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. John battled alcohol addiction and prescription drug misuse for nearly two decad...

4 months ago

22 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Alcohol Addiction & Depression to Rehab, AA, & Fatherhood | An Addiction Recovery Story

Aaron’s addiction recovery story reveals the deep connection between alcohol abuse and untreated depression. After losing his cousin to a heroin overdose, Aaron entered rehab and began the journey toward sobriety, mental health, and family healing. This is a powerful story of hope, vulnerability, and long-term recovery. Explore addiction and mental health resources: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Aaron struggled with alcohol addiction and depression for many years. 2. His d...

4 months ago

24 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Heroin, Cocaine & Alcohol Addiction to 36 Years of Sobriety | An Addiction Recovery Story

This is Roger’s powerful addiction recovery story—beginning with trauma, heroin use at 12, and 13 years of severe substance abuse. Despite never attending rehab, he found his way to 36 years clean from drugs and 14 years sober from alcohol. This episode explores mental health, suicide ideation, and the role of hope in long-term recovery. Explore addiction and mental health treatment options: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Roger began using drugs at age 12, escalating quickl...

5 months ago

26 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Childhood Trauma & Cocaine Addiction to Trauma Therapy & Recovery | An Addiction Recovery Story

Tanya Lopez shares her powerful addiction recovery story, shaped by grief, abandonment, and trauma. From IV cocaine use and multiple OWIs to 11 years of sobriety, Tanya opens up about relapse, motherhood, and how trauma therapy and community support helped her reclaim her life. A deeply personal mental health & addiction recovery story. Find local alcohol treatment near you: https://recovery.com/condition/alcohol/ Find local trauma treatment near you: https://recovery.com/condition/trau...

5 months ago

25 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From Alcoholism & Depression to Spiritual Awakening & Sobriety | An Addiction Recovery Story

This addiction recovery story follows Bryon, a U.S. military veteran, as he opens up about his battle with alcohol abuse and depression. From high-functioning day drinking to a blood alcohol level of 0.38 during a welfare check, Bryon shares the powerful moment that triggered his transformation and the holistic methods—like meditation, stoicism, and spirituality—that helped him find lasting sobriety. Explore addiction treatment options: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Bri...

6 months ago

19 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

Alcoholism, Depression & Divorce to SMART Recovery & Sober Parenting | An Addiction Recovery Story

In this powerful addiction recovery story, Wes shares his battle with severe alcohol use disorder and co-occurring mental health challenges. After years of binge drinking, secretive alcohol use, and devastating consequences—including divorce and a DUI—Wes found sobriety, hope, and a joyful life in recovery. For more recovery stories, treatment options, and resources, visit: https://recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Wes struggled with severe alcohol use disorder for over a decade, oft...

6 months ago

22 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

From High-Functioning Alcoholism & Anxiety to 12-Step Recovery | An Addiction Recovery Story

In this powerful addiction recovery story, Robert shares how anxiety and hidden alcohol use unraveled his life—even as he held a career and raised a family. From a seizure and hospitalization to transformative treatment at the Mayo Clinic and finding lasting sobriety through AA, his story is one of resilience, relapse, and redemption. Find alcohol, anxiety, and depression treatment at Recovery.com Key talking points: 1. Robert began drinking at 21 to cope with lifelong anxiety. 2. Alcoh...

6 months ago

23 minutes

Giving Voice to Addiction

Giving Voice To Addiction Trailer

Welcome to Giving Voice to Addiction, a podcast from Recovery.com where the often-unheard stories of addiction and recovery take center stage. Join host Terry McGuire and co-host Caroline Beidler, an expert in the addiction recovery field with lived experience, as they engage in powerful conversations with everyday individuals who have navigated the complexities of addiction. Each week, you'll hear raw and honest accounts of struggle, resilience, and the profound hope that blossoms in recover...

7 months ago

1 minute