44 minFamily and relationships
Loving an addict turned out to be the best decision of her life
Mia Ruggiero/Unfiltered by Mia
10 conversations
Parents and kids
Getting sober for a child, and telling that child the truth later.
A lot of people in recovery point at one moment, and often there is a child in it. That is where my own story turned, so it comes up in most of these conversations whether I raise it or not.
The harder half is what comes after. These guests talk about how they plan to explain it, what they will say, and at what age. Several of them have already had the conversation.
The conversations
Every episode about parents and kids
44 min
27 minAlcohol
I wanted to drink myself to death
Mike Shooty/Nearly four years sober, Just Today
43 minAlcohol
He checked into rehab hours before his wife found out what he did
Tyler Ramsey/Former Bear Stearns
46 minHeroin and opioids
From a Level 4 prison yard to 13 years sober
Garet/Thirteen years sober
50 minAlcohol
Her kids found her passed out at a 0.47 BAC
Anne/Michigan, seven years sober
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
51 minGambling addiction
I lost $580,000 in ten days and wanted to die
Joe Cannon/Twelve-year gambling spiral
54 minHeroin and opioids
Inside Olivia's descent into IV heroin addiction
Olivia/Nurse, seven years sober
2 hr 3 minHeroin and opioids
I had a $1,200-a-day pill habit
Kevin Lanning/Interviewing me
Elsewhere in the library
Other things people come here for
- Family and relationshipsThe marriages that survived it, and the ones that did not.30
- Rehab and treatmentTwenty-five treatment centres, one that finally worked, and why.28
- Mental health and suicideThe nights people planned to end it, and what stopped them.22
- Gambling addictionThe addiction that leaves no track marks and no smell on your breath.21
- Sober living and habitsThe unglamorous daily mechanics of staying clean.21
- AlcoholHigh-functioning drinking, hidden bottles and the double life it takes to keep it going.16
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