Breaking Down Addiction
Breaking Down Addiction is a podcast from National Addiction Specialists featuring real stories of recovery, resilience, and hope. Each episode dives deep into the lived experiences of people overcoming addiction—raw, unfiltered, and rooted in healing.
Breaking Down Addiction
Latest Episodes
#22 Matt Culp — Do the Next Hardest Thing: Surrender, Service, & Long-Term Recovery
Matt Culp knows what it means to keep coming back. After multiple treatment centers, overdoses, jail, and years of running—from consequences, from himself, and from recovery—Matt reached a point where he realized he simply couldn’t trust himsel...
#21 Kristian Moore — Recovery Beyond Abstinence and Learning to Truly Heal
Kristian Moore’s recovery story challenges the idea that sobriety is the finish line. For Kristian, putting down drugs and alcohol saved her life—but lasting recovery meant confronting anxiety, depression, perfectionism, shame, and the deeply r...
#20 Dacey Fenton —Trauma, Faith, & Finding Freedom Beyond Sobriety
Dacey Fenton’s recovery story is about far more than overcoming addiction. It’s about discovering that getting sober was only the beginning of a much deeper journey toward healing shame, processing trauma, rebuilding identity, and learning what...
#19 Lee Pepper — Breaking Stigma, Ethical Marketing, & Lessons from 10,000 Recovery Calls
Lee Pepper has spent nearly two decades helping behavioral health organizations reach more people, grow responsibly, and better understand what individuals and families experience when they make the difficult first call for help.A milita...
#18 Logan Terry — Heroin, Grief, & Finding Hope In Recovery
Logan Terry’s story is one of devastating loss, remarkable resilience, and discovering that hope, love, and purpose are stronger than addiction.Growing up outside Nashville, Logan’s addiction began with alcohol at 12 before escalating i...
