You Shouldn't Need to Qualify for Help: CAPSA Vice President Speaks Up.

You Shouldn't Need to Qualify for Help: CAPSA Vice President Speaks Up.

Send us Fan Mail "I never decided to get better, I just gave up on dying." Gord Garner smoked crack for 30 years. Today he is the Vice President of the Community Addictions Peer Support Association (CAPSA). “I don’t have a heroic personal story, I have a story of thousands of people helping me.” His goal is to improve the lives of Canadians in regards to their relationships with substances. “you shouldn’t have to get better in order to get help” We couldn't agree more. Tune in this wee...

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The Real Darkness of Meth Addiction | Nurse Practitioner | Chastidy's Story.

The Real Darkness of Meth Addiction | Nurse Practitioner | Chastidy's Story.

Send us Fan Mail Chastity went from teenage mother to nurse, then watched addiction unravel the life she had built. Xanax and alcohol progressed to opioids, heroin and meth, eventually costing her car...

26 Aug 55min

Heroin, Gangs & the Voice in My Head | Billy’s Recovery Story

Heroin, Gangs & the Voice in My Head | Billy’s Recovery Story

Send us Fan Mail Billy shares his journey from glue sniffing and gang violence in Glasgow to heroin addiction, drug dealing, prison, grief, and ultimately recovery. After 27 years caught in addiction...

14 Aug 43min

Meth, Heroin, and Faith | Aaron’s Recovery Story

Meth, Heroin, and Faith | Aaron’s Recovery Story

Send us Fan Mail Aaron shares his journey through opioid addiction, heroin, meth, overdose, relapse, psychosis, and frightening experiences he understood as spiritual — and how faith, honesty, and fin...

7 Aug 54min

The Rap Game, Crack Addiction & Codependency | Gerald's Story

The Rap Game, Crack Addiction & Codependency | Gerald's Story

Send us Fan Mail Gerald grew up in Chicago searching for somewhere he belonged. That search eventually led him into drugs, the rap and nightclub scene, crack cocaine addiction, and years of destructi...

31 Jul 47min

Meth, Homelessness & Faith | Mike's Story

Meth, Homelessness & Faith | Mike's Story

Send us Fan Mail Mike spent years chasing relief through alcohol, prescription opioids, methamphetamine, and anything that could numb the pain. What followed was prison, homelessness, broken relations...

24 Jul 44min

Surviving Foster Care, Meth & Witchcraft | James' Recovery Story

Surviving Foster Care, Meth & Witchcraft | James' Recovery Story

Send us Fan Mail James shares his journey through foster care, childhood abuse, meth addiction, psychosis, witchcraft, and recovery. After enduring years of neglect and abuse, he turned to drugs in an...

18 Jul 1h 14min

My Minivan Became My Home | Emma's Recovery Story

My Minivan Became My Home | Emma's Recovery Story

Send us Fan Mail Emma never imagined she'd lose everything. She was a mother of five, a children's counsellor, and the kind of parent driving a minivan to soccer practice. But after a prescription opi...

10 Jul 48min

Meth, Witchcraft and the Escort Industry | Valerie's Recovery Story

Meth, Witchcraft and the Escort Industry | Valerie's Recovery Story

Send us Fan Mail Valerie shares her story of growing up around meth addiction, childhood abuse, foster care, witchcraft, the escort industry, and finding recovery after nearly losing her life. Suppor...

3 Jul 45min

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