Addiction & Recovery Podcasts

The most useful recovery episodes often turn on one small, damning detail. On The One Day At A Time Recovery Podcast, a speaker recalls waking every day for over a decade, promising not to drink that night, then drinking. On A Sober Girls Guide Podcast, Jennifer Salzman describes repeating the same promise in her car while pulling into the liquor store. Hearing that loop told exactly can do what a pamphlet can't.

AA Recovery Interviews with Howard L. trades in long first-person histories. In the 98-minute Dwight M. - Sober 35 Years, the interviewer pauses Dwight's memories of Vietnam to check that he is still okay sharing, and promises not to dwell there. Near the end of Rudy T. - Sober 27 Years, he notes that he pays all production costs and that no one profits from the show.

Mad Dog Recovery AA Speakers records talks instead. In Chad P Steps 10-11 CA meeting in UK 04-04-26, Chad, who says he came in an atheist, treats daily trouble as practice: "I'm engaging in life so I can grow closer to God." Anonymous - Real Stories of Alcoholism, Addiction, and Recovery keeps the meeting shape: what it was like, what happened and what it's like now. In 015: David’s Story: Learning to be Human, David explains that his first sobriety lasted 21 years without God or amends, and ended with a drink.

The format carries other compulsions too. On Overeaters Anonymous East Bay Unity Intergroup, Melissa counts diets among the behaviours she abstains from: "I do not starve myself." She offers that as testimony about her own plan.

In The One Day At A Time Recovery Podcast's 425 Raising the Bottom: How to Stop Drinking Before You Hit Rock Bottom, host Arlena works step one with Sonia Kellon, using The 12-Step Guide for Skeptics. Sonia is nearly nine years sober but new to formal step work, and the pair are frank about meetings that left them cold. Feel Good Alcohol-Free with Lindsay Hennekey answers with Episode 53: How To Quit Drinking Without AA, which is built on keeping promises to yourself. On Rise Above with Kevin Lanning, a young guest describes twelve-step treatment, a sponsor she couldn't keep, and two years anchored in yoga and community. The same conversation covers self-harm and a psychiatric hold.

Faith frames other shows. On Sober.Coffee Podcast, Justin Kinney says, "If there was not a God, I would be dead." The hosts frame their suggestions as their own experience rather than professional advice. In From Addiction to Redemption: Will Paz’s Story of Faith & Recovery, From Beer to the Bible's guest and interviewer both work for treatment providers, which is worth keeping in mind alongside the testimony.

Solo coaching shows swap testimony for instruction. In How Do I Deal With Stress Without a Drink?, That Sober Guy Podcast sets out a writing routine: what stresses you, how you feel about it, and one step you can take today. It also invites men to its Victory Circle community. A Sober Girls Guide Podcast promotes a membership trial in Jennifer Salzman: ADHD and Alcohol. Rise Above with Kevin Lanning carries an ad read in which a speaker describes partnering with a treatment centre. None of this disqualifies a show, but it belongs beside the advice.

Addiction Unlimited Podcast turns the lens on listeners. In You're Not Doing the Work — You're Just Watching Other People Do It, its host warns that "recovery is not a spectator sport."

The Addicted Mind Podcast leans clinical. In Episode 354: Unveiling the Risks: THC Addiction and the Impact of High-Potency Cannabis with Dr Mitrevolis, an addiction-medicine physician discusses cannabis in the 1960s and 70s. He also cites Lancet research on chronic adolescent use and psychosis risk where there is a family history. Those are his readings of the studies. On Soberful's 342: Addiction, Trauma and the Older Population, Polly Kaiser cites UK figures for 2023 showing the highest alcohol-related death rate among people aged 55 to 74. She then stresses how little is known about effective treatment for that group.

Approach How NAD+ Supports The Brain During Addiction Recovery w/Dr. Darin Stettler & Joey Perea on The Other Side of Addiction with more caution. One guest says peptides and NAD are significantly changing recovery, while another voice doubts they help with cravings and balks at $200 a month.

The Recovery Show » Finding serenity through 12 step recovery in Al-Anon – a podcast applies Al-Anon to partners and family. Co-parenting with an Alcoholic – 342 lasts 119 minutes and mixes panel talk with listener letters, including one from a mother whose nine-year-old "knows everything." On The Addicted Mind Podcast, Lisa Smith argues that "addiction is a family disease, yet we do not treat the whole family." Rise Above with Kevin Lanning's My Son Was Doing Fentanyl at 16… I Had to Let Him Go to Save His Life gives a mother room for anger, fear and an overdose call. The Trauma & Recovery page covers neighbouring ground.