Recovery in the Middle Ages - Two Middle-Aged Suburban Dads Talk About Recovering From Addiction to Drugs & Alcohol.
Mike and Nat are two middle-aged suburban dads wrestling with addiction and recovery while trying to juggle home life, work, and staying sober.
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Changing Seats on the Titanic? Gambling, Nicotine & Replacement Addictions (opens the original)
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Episode: 153: What Fills the Hole? Last week, we asked whether America is genuinely getting sober or simply swapping one addiction for another. This week, we examine what people are using to replace drugs and alcohol. Nobody warns you that quitting leaves a hole — not a metaphorical one, a real five-o'clock-on-a-Tuesday hole where a thing used to go. Something is going to fill it. (Hehe). The only question is what, and whether you picked it or it picked you. So today: emergency rooms are seeing
Season 7: We're Back, and Nobody's Drinking Anymore (opens the original)
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Episode: 152: Season 7: We're Back, and Nobody's Drinking Anymore SEASON 7 IS HERE. After a long hiatus, Mike and Nat are back for National Recovery Month. We catch up on where we've both actually been, and Nat explains why he's becoming a Freemason — which, for a show called Recovery in the Middle Ages, feels overdue. Then: a non-alcoholic bottle shop opened one town over, so we brought some of it into the studio. NA beer goes down fine. The fake wine did something else entirely — it made us bo
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