Podcasts Health Busting Addiction and Its Myths An Interview with Andrew - This Is Not a Game

An Interview with Andrew - This Is Not a Game

Published: July 31, 2020, 8 a.m.

In this podcast, I interview Andrew a 30-year-old professional, clean and sober for more than 6 years.

The topics we covered were:

  1. It\u2019s rare that an addict or alcoholic becomes addicted to only one substance, \u201cpoly-addiction\u201d is the norm.
  2. Mother is the great enabler. She tries to help him stop, while at the same time allows him to live rent-free in her second home.
  3. Andrew hated the way he felt, and wanted to stop, but didn\u2019t know how to.
  4. He came to realize that he could not quit on his own and needed to reach out and beg for help.
  5. Connecting to other young recovering people got him into his first 12 step meeting where he surrendered his old ways of thinking, and he\u2019s been clean and sober ever since.