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Description

Christopher is the founder of the “Why Intervention Podcast”, he is a counselor, an interventionist, a firefighter, a father and also a person in recovery. Christopher talks with his good friend, John, who was in recovery from a double addiction and returned to life using the “intervention process”.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

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Show Notes

• The addiction treatment field -1:23
• John's background - 3:03
• First experience getting drunk or high - 3:59
• Consequences of getting drunk - 5:40
• Experiences while intoxicated - 7:23
• Everything had become problematic - 10:08
• Drug and alcohol withdrawal - 13:32
• His family during the intervention process - 17:05
• The arrest - 18:35
• What is like having a double addiction - 19:19
• How the Intervention Process helped him - 24:18
• Feeling relief after the intervention - 27:37
• Was the intervention necessary? - 30:28
• Feeling you are about to die - 30:55
• Participating in two interventions - 35:47
• Living in life and recovering - 38:52
• The greatest victory - 39:59
• The best gift: being here - 41:18
  
  

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