Warrior of Hope: Substance Use Advocate Speaks Up. Phoenix Fire Episode 4
Send us Fan Mail Kelsey is 16 years in recovery, a pharmacist, a mother of 4, and activist on many fronts with an insider's look at the cold-hard numbers we often wonder about. "Folks who access publi...
20 Apr 20221h 7min
I Couldn't Stop Using: The Story of One Basement to Another.
Send us Fan Mail "I was spiritually bankrupt and I wanted to die." Shane started using heavy in Grade 7. Years later he found Crack in Calgary, AB. It all went fuzzy after that, "I remember people tel...
12 Apr 20221h 5min
One Pill Kills: The Parents Speak Up. Phoenix Fire Ep. 2
Send us Fan Mail Lea and Todd Hoiland’s world was shattered on July 8, 2021 – the day they lost their vibrant 20-year-old daughter, Alyssa, to a fentanyl-laced Xanax. “If my daughter had taken just a ...
12 Apr 202233min
Higher Purpose: A Story of Finding the Eternal Flame.
Send us Fan Mail “I was trying to escape horrors I faced as an intergenerational residential school survivor with drugs and alcohol. It didn’t work.” Sundance spent his early years in school being cal...
8 Apr 202258min
A Shot in the Dark: From Heroin to Healer.
Send us Fan Mail “I was shooting heroin at gas pumps hoping the cops would pick me up. They never did.” Jakob was dealing drugs at 13 years old. Using Heroin by 18, Homeless by 26. When his thoughts f...
6 Apr 20221h
Harm Reduction Unmasked: A Search to End the Madness. Phoenix Fire Ep.1
Send us Fan Mail Most of the 464 overdose deaths in Saskatchewan in 2021 alone (a record setting year) were deemed accidental and most were linked to Fentanyl. “You try to imagine living your life wit...
6 Apr 20221h 11min
Trap House Testimony: Recovering Ex-Gang Member Tells Her Story.
Send us Fan Mail "I buried myself in a pile of clothes, they found me. I'll never forget the ski mask and the eyes looking at me. I knew those eyes." Chantel was in deep. Addiction, trafficking, armed...
31 Mar 20221h 9min
Flames of Survival: Recovering Fentanyl Addict Speaks Up.
Send us Fan Mail "Welcome to the shit show." Kea tried meth at 14 years old, A stripper by 17. From gang cultural gang violence to fraud to running a chop shop, Kea didn't seem to have a bottom, Until...
24 Mar 20221h 11min
