Latest Fentanyl Podcast Episodes
A grieving father's fight to bring deadly drug dealers to justice
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - July 17, 2024 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsShould drug dealers face prison time? It's a contentious issue with strong opinions on both sides. For years, law enforcement often treated drug overdose deaths as accidental or the fault of the victim. However, with a record surge in fentanyl-related fatalities in the United States, attitudes a...
Promising young entrepreneur dies after taking counterfeit percocet
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - July 10, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsAt just 19 years old, Jack Nathan had a bright and promising future. He founded his own apparel company, Happy Jack, and generously donated some proceeds to support children struggling with mental health issues. However, a single decision changed everything. Jack's life was tragically cut short...
The Stoics Can Teach Us Something About Recovery
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - July 05, 2024 21:00 - 25 minutesSend us a Text Message. The Stoic philosophy can be applied to recovery., Support the Show.
The silent crisis of alcohol and women's liver disease
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - July 03, 2024 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsOriginally released on August 4th, 2022 Deaths from alcohol-related liver disease are rising sharply among women. Today's guest, Dr. Jessica Mellinger, a liver specialist at the University of Michigan, has witnessed a 60% increase in waitlisting and transplants for patients with alcoholic hepat...
CEO launches passion project to educate others about grief
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - June 26, 2024 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsGrief—it's a heart-wrenching emotion that most of us will likely have to experience. Often, we're unprepared for the overwhelming pain and sorrow, and we struggle to know how to support friends who have lost loved ones. A Sioux Falls, South Dakota, businesswoman has started a passion project to...
A mother's urgent message on mental health and addiction
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - June 19, 2024 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsHave you ever wondered how deeply intertwined mental health and addiction can be? According to reports published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, around half of those with serious mental health issues also struggle with substance use disorder. Experts say that certain substanc...
Connectivity Is The Key To Recovery
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - June 14, 2024 15:00 - 25 minutesSend us a Text Message. How we get past the use of arrogance to get into recovery is through connection and trust. Support the Show.
One woman's path to overcome abuse and addiction
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - June 12, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsIn this episode of Grieving Out Loud, Angela Kennecke talks with Elaine Mingus about her journey through severe challenges and eventual recovery. Elaine shares her story of surviving sexual abuse and battling depression, an eating disorder, and a substance use disorder. Her experiences highlight...
“Half my original family is gone” - Fentanyl’s deadly toll on families
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - June 05, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsAfter Heather Ruzic tragically lost her son to illicit fentanyl in 2015, she made it her mission to warn others about the danger. Yet, as time passed, she witnessed more parents suffering similar tragedies while the epidemic continued to impact her family in unforeseen ways. Heather's first hu...
A middle-class family man's journey into homelessness and heroin
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - May 29, 2024 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsTom Wolf embodied the quintessential image of a middle-class family man—married, with two children, living in the suburbs, and holding a steady job as a child support officer. However, his life took a drastic turn after a seemingly routine foot surgery led to a prescription for painkillers. Lis...
Help, I've Fallen And I Won't Get Up!
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - May 22, 2024 21:00 - 24 minutesSend us a Text Message. Being magically stuck in a position where you won't move to get the help and get into recovery is a tough place to find yourself. Support the Show.
A grieving mother's memoir about addiction inspires a screenplay
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - May 22, 2024 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratings"Slow Dancing with the Devil"--that's the title of Susan Bartz Herrick's book that's now being turned into a screenplay. It's a story that the grieving mother never wanted to write--a heartbreaking memoir of her son's relentless 20-year battle with substance use disorder, a fight he unfortunatel...
Embracing hope after the loss of a daughter to suicide
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - May 15, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsThe statistics are deeply troubling. Between 2007 and 2021, youth suicide rates surged by more than 60%. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that teens living in the most impoverished areas were 37% more likely to die by suicide. However, this distressing trend isn't...
Relief From The Past
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - May 08, 2024 21:00 - 25 minutesSend us a Text Message. Having a troubled past will lead you to destruction. Getting into a group environment can help you when you are trying to work through your old issues that seem to linger in your present. Support the Show.
A wake-up call for parents on Fentanyl Awareness Day
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - May 07, 2024 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsFentanyl—dubbed by some as America's haunting "F" word—continues to carve a path of destruction across the nation. With the U.S. facing its deadliest drug epidemic in history, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says fentanyl is one of the main culprits. But today, on National Fentan...
Grieving father takes on Purdue Pharma after son dies from OxyContin
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - May 01, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsAs the inspiration behind characters in the award-winning books "Dopesick" and "Raising Lazarus," Ed Bisch shares his journey of turning personal tragedy into a force for powerful change. Following the heart-wrenching loss of his high school son to an OxyContin overdose early in the opioid epide...
Accident, Experiment, Or Relapse
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - April 27, 2024 16:00 - 24 minutesSend us a Text Message. If you go back out what can you expect, and just what did you do? Was it an accident, and experiment, or a full on relapse? Support the Show.
Prince's cousin's efforts to expose the truth behind the musician's fentanyl death
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - April 21, 2024 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsEight years have passed since the world lost Prince, an unparalleled musical force and one of America's most revered artists. During his life, the creative genius sold over 100 million records, ranking him among the best-selling musical artists ever. However, despite his worldwide fame, the circ...
A mother-daughter journey from Hollywood to heroin to healing
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - April 17, 2024 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsFrom a young age, Sarah Spier seemed destined for success. At 18 years old, she landed a job as a film specialist for the Academy Award-winning movie No Country for Old Men. But her Hollywood dreams quickly turned into a nightmare of heroin addiction. Sarah fell in love with a drug dealer, think...
Determination Is All You Need To Get There
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - April 12, 2024 19:00 - 23 minutesSend us a Text Message. Will power is not what will get you into recovery, determination is the real driver. Support the Show.
A candid conversation with the real doctor who inspired Michael Keaton's 'Dopesick' character
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - April 10, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsWorld-renowned actor Michael Keaton has won several awards, including his first Emmy, for his performance in the Hulu series "Dopesick." The "Batman" actor portrays a hard-working doctor in a small mining town who gets addicted to the pain pills he starts prescribing. Today on Grieving Out Loud,...
Accountability And Responsibility" What's The Difference?
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - April 05, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutesAccountability and responsibility are two very different things but in recovery they sometimes get confused to mean the same thing. Support the Show.
Accountability And Responsibility, What's The Difference?
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - April 05, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutesSend us a Text Message. Accountability and responsibility are two very different things but in recovery they sometimes get confused to mean the same thing. Support the Show.
Cancer patient uses his addiction battle to create a potentially life-saving device
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - April 03, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsEver feel like you've hit a certain age, and your chance to impact the world has passed you by? In today's Grieving Out Loud episode, we'll introduce you to Neil Jackson, who proves that age is just a number. In his early 60s, Neil faced the devastating news of a rare cancer diagnosis and the ...
Mother spearheads lawsuit against Snapchat in wake of teen's fentanyl fatality
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - March 27, 2024 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsFrom FOX News to CNN and ABC, Amy Neville has found herself under the national news spotlight, but it's for a cause she wishes never existed. Amy faced the heart-wrenching loss of her 14-year-old son, who, on the brink of his first year in high school, ingested what he thought was oxycodone, a p...
Step Five: Deflation Of The Ego
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - March 20, 2024 19:00 - 25 minutesSend us a Text Message. Is Step Five really the most difficult step? Deflation of the ego is a necessary step and yes it is difficult. Support the Show.
Step Five: Deflation Of The Edgo
Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard - March 20, 2024 19:00 - 25 minutesIs Step Five really the most difficult step? Deflation of the ego is a necessary step and yes it is difficult. Support the show
A paramedic's harrowing shift from lifesaver to bereaved mother in the fentanyl crisis
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - March 20, 2024 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsAs a seasoned paramedic, Shani Reisnour has seen the painful impact of our nation’s drug crisis up close. But she never expected it to hit her family. Unfortunately, fentanyl doesn’t discriminate. In this episode of Grieving Out Loud, Shani opens up about her daughter’s struggle with substance ...
Grief, marijuana, and addiction: A conversation about cannabis use disorder
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - March 13, 2024 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsWith a record number of Americans using marijuana, cannabis use disorder is also on the rise. Recent research published in The Journal of the American Medical Association finds that more than one-fifth of people who use cannabis struggle with dependency or problematic use. In this episode of Gr...
Podcast star shares story of overcoming grief & trauma
Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - March 06, 2024 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsAs one of the most popular podcasters in the world, Meghan Judge has seen a lot of success throughout her career. She’s also married to a Hollywood actor, but now she speaks out about the trauma she survived starting at a young age. Because of all of her grief, abuse, and abandonment issues, doc...
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