1 hr 4 minGambling addiction
All of his income went straight to gambling
Daniel Bullen/Compulsive gambler in recovery
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52 episodes
1 hr 4 min
52 minAlcohol
She hid her alcohol addiction behind modelling and travel
Sophie Sumner/Model, six years sober
37 minHeroin and opioids
Heroin made him rob a jewelry store
Jimmy Abbate/25 years in recovery
41 minGambling addiction
His daughter was in the hospital, and he was home gambling
Joe Pizzimenti/Last bet December 2013
43 minOther drugs
He tricked three doctors to feed his Adderall addiction
Anthony Scamardella/Eight years on Adderall, in recovery
49 minGambling addiction
He turned $200 into $100,000, then lost it all
Uri Edell/Recovering gambler
46 minMental health and suicide
What always happens before you find out you are a sex addict
Craig Perra/The Mindful Habit System
55 minHeroin and opioids
She would rather have been dead than sober
Madeline/Seven and a half years sober
33 minAlcohol
Doctors told her one more drink could kill her
Raquel Herrera/Alcohol and drugs, in recovery
42 minGambling addiction
Online gambling is the next addiction epidemic
John Bonatesta/The Odds and Reality
39 minAlcohol
Alcohol gave me stage 2 liver disease at 22
Karina Miesner/Nearly two years sober
44 minFamily and relationships
Loving an addict turned out to be the best decision of her life
Mia Ruggiero/Unfiltered by Mia
27 minAlcohol
I wanted to drink myself to death
Mike Shooty/Nearly four years sober, Just Today
40 minOther drugs
I overdosed on water and woke up from a coma
John Rokee/Near-fatal overdose, in recovery
58 minGambling addiction
How DraftKings and FanDuel engineer addiction
Jonathan Cohen/Historian, author of Losing Big
56 minHeroin and opioids
The fastest way to break the addiction cycle
Corey Warren/Heroin and alcohol, in recovery
45 minMental health and suicide
Everything looked perfect on Instagram
John Scafiddi Jr/The Journey podcast, founder of At War
38 minGambling addiction
He lost six figures in 35 minutes, then the casino offered him a free room
Danny/Bet on Reset
55 minOther drugs
A Wall Street manager who ended up in crack houses
Dan Ryan/Thirty-eight years sober
41 minHeroin and opioids
I was a heroin addict in Kensington
Westley Morris/Thirteen years sober
53 minAlcohol
Famous at 18, in a psych ward at 25
Jonah Marais/Why Don't We
43 minAlcohol
He checked into rehab hours before his wife found out what he did
Tyler Ramsey/Former Bear Stearns
40 minHeroin and opioids
25 rehabs failed. A kidnapping is what finally saved her
Ashley Moore/In recovery
38 minGambling addiction
What his wife put in the pizza box changed everything
Eugene K./Five years clean, Gamblers Anonymous
44 minGambling addiction
He answered 18 of 20 gambling questions yes at age 18
Sal/Gamblers Anonymous, since 1986
46 minHeroin and opioids
From a Level 4 prison yard to 13 years sober
Garet/Thirteen years sober
51 minGambling addiction
He wagered $126 million in four years
Sam Favata/Former professional baseball player
39 minAlcohol
A handle of vodka a day put her in a coma at 30
Adriana/Cirrhosis survivor
39 minAlcohol
A belt was around his neck when the bathroom pole broke
Cormac/Love Island USA, fitness coach
54 minGambling addiction
He staged his own robbery to hide a $20,000 gambling loss
Adam Joseph/Ten years of hidden gambling
31 minHeroin and opioids
She nearly lost her arm twice and still didn't stop
Lauren G./Philadelphia and Kensington
30 minGambling addiction
He turned $30,000 into $500,000 in chips, then lost it in 72 hours
Kurt F./Compulsive gambler in recovery
42 minHeroin and opioids
Her father bought two burial plots, one for her and one for himself
Jessie/Sober since 2022, Broken Bandit
1 hr 8 minOther drugs
Lamar Odom on the coma and the night that almost killed him
Lamar Odom/Two-time NBA champion
50 minAlcohol
Her kids found her passed out at a 0.47 BAC
Anne/Michigan, seven years sober
43 minGambling addiction
Gambling addiction almost killed him by 28
Anthony Natoli/Tech sales, San Francisco
53 minHeroin and opioids
He overdosed in his father's car, then went to rehab for the fourteenth time
Alan Griffin/15 years sober, Banyan Treatment Centers
42 minHeroin and opioids
She lied about mahjong to meet her dealer
Jordi/Ten years of hidden opioid use
47 minHeroin and opioids
He snorted heroin while his two-month-old slept
Andrew/Heroin and oxy, now in recovery
42 minGambling addiction
He got high while shopping for his own rehab clothes
Jordan Freeman/In recovery
53 minAlcohol
She drank Listerine when her parents wouldn't let her have alcohol
Caitlin/In recovery
58 minGambling addiction
A therapist on why you think you'll win it back
Gambling therapist/Clinician
54 minGambling addiction
A $10,000 slot win ruined his life
Sam/Founder, Evive
1 hr 10 minAlcohol
She hid bottles everywhere
Sydney McAllister/Sober Syd
51 minGambling addiction
I lost $580,000 in ten days and wanted to die
Joe Cannon/Twelve-year gambling spiral
1 hr 20 minGambling addiction
He won $3.2 million in 48 minutes, then lost $13 million
Mathew Bowyer/Bookmaker in the Ohtani case
1 hr 10 minAlcohol
She shouldn't be alive
Kat/Treatment centre owner, nine years sober
1 hr 1 minGambling addiction
He lost everything gambling, then paid back every person
Moshe/The Watch King NYC
54 minHeroin and opioids
Inside Olivia's descent into IV heroin addiction
Olivia/Nurse, seven years sober
51 minOther drugs
Surviving the mafia, addiction and domestic abuse
Renee Graziano/Mob Wives
1 hrGambling addiction
He won seven figures, then lost it all in 24 hours
Mike Steinmetz/Entrepreneur, former actor
2 hr 3 minHeroin and opioids
I had a $1,200-a-day pill habit
Kevin Lanning/Interviewing me