To Thine Own Self Be True
When faced with your past and hoping for a brighter future, you need to look at yourself in the now. When seeking your true self, there will always be problems or obstacles that come up and hold you back. Pressure from your past influences is often the root cause that leads people down lives paths they don’t enjoy, so be true to yourself. You are worth it!
The Verdict: Tyler Skaggs
This week's episode of the Agents of Recovery, they speak on the sad story of Tyler Skaggs, pitcher for the Anaheim Angels who passed away from a drug overdose. On Thursday, a jury in a federal courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, found former Angels communications official Eric Kay, guilty of distributing the counterfeit, fentanyl-laced pills that led to Skaggs’ death and of conspiracy to possess pills with intent to distribute.
Listen as the agents discuss the sad situation on both sides of this unfortunate situation.
Is That A Trigger
This week's podcast focuses on triggers we face and how to handle them. The journey from addiction to recovery is full of many ups and downs. If you have managed to acquire some sober time, you are aware that the journey is full of productive, easy sailing days as well as days when you feel you can barely make it through. Triggers are the most common obstacles that can deter an individual from their recovery and sometimes lead to relapse.
Controversial Questions
In this week's episode, the agents of recovery discuss five controversial questions that seem to still be unanswered and misrepresented by many people. Listen as the agents discuss their thoughts on how come so many misconceptions of recovery, a person seeking sobriety and the way the public perceives them is still very biased.
Something Wicked This Way Comes; What is Fentanyl?
In this week's episode, the Agents take a deep dive into a problem we are not ready for, the Fentanyl epidemic. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin. It is both a prescribed drug, as well as a drug that is at times made and used illegally.
Like morphine, prescription fentanyl is typically used to treat patients with severe pain, especially after surgery. It is also sometimes used to treat patients with chronic pain who are physically tolerant to other opioids. When prescribed by a doctor, fentanyl can be given as a shot, a patch that is put on a person’s skin, or as lozenges that are sucked like cough drops.
Fentanyl that is illegally manufactured is dangerous. It is made without the quality controls of pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl and is a major contributor to recent increases in synthetic opioid overdose deaths. This illegally manufactured fentanyl is sold illegally as a powder, dropped onto blotter paper, put in eye droppers and nasal sprays, or made into counterfeit pills that look like other prescription opioids.
Importantly, fentanyl is also being mixed with other drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA. This is especially risky when people taking drugs don’t realize that the drugs they are using might contain fentanyl and significantly increase their risk for overdose death.
A person can easily overdose on fentanyl. An overdose occurs when a drug produces serious adverse effects and life-threatening symptoms. Death from an opioid overdose happens when the drug depresses the parts of the brain that control breathing.
Fentanyl is addictive because of its potency. A person taking prescription fentanyl as instructed by a doctor can still experience dependence, which is characterized by withdrawal symptoms when the drug is stopped. A person can be dependent on a substance without being addicted, but dependence can sometimes lead to addiction.
Difficult Questions
Today's episode the Agents of Recovery Max Hall, Brock Bevell, and Blu Robinson take on some difficult questions from listeners. They address serious topics of addiction, obstacles to recovery and much more. The Agents are open and honest regardless the difference in opinion and that’s what makes them an amazing team.
Let's Get Real About Fentanyl
In this week's episode, the agents of recovery discuss the fentanyl epidemic and get very personal with their insights, thoughts, and perceptions on how their recovery and pursuit of sobriety have changed their lives. This podcast takes a very deep principle-based direction with an open conversation that is humbling at best.
Mentally Fit
In this week's episode, the Agents discuss mental health fitness and methods to keep your recovery on track despite the outside stresses of life. Healthy affirmation, or talking to yourself in a positive way, involves strengthening neural pathways to bring your self-confidence, well-being, and satisfaction to a higher level. It's time to increase your mental toughness.
Take Your Mark, It's 2022
In this week's podcast, the Agents of Recovery discuss the principles behind goal attainment. Deeper than simply choosing a New Year's resolution, the agents discuss the foundations of how to achieve goals by looking at the principles found within. This is a podcast loaded with amazing content that will assist you in taking your mark to start your 2022 off with a growth mindset.
It's Your Resistance To What Is
On this week's podcast, the Agents of Recovery discuss it is your resistance to what is, that is causing most of the struggles in your life. Listen as they review how to overcome adversity, where to pull strength from, and how to endure until the end to begin the journey all over. This inspirational podcast will help you overcome addiction, mental health challenges, and trauma. Max Hall NFL, Brock Bevell, former law enforcement, and Blu Robinson mental health therapist are the Agents of Recovery.
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Producing a Winning Recovery Plan
In this week’s episode, the agents of recovery discussed making personal plays in recovery. Going beyond the recovery playbook you've been establishing, this podcast focuses on your individuality of making plays to benefit your long-term recovery in the moment, adjusting when necessary, and repeating the process. Listen to the real talk as they discuss the importance of a relapse prevention plan and the situation that sometimes forces us to the sidelines but inevitably will lead us back into the field of life if we make proper choices.
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Making Plays For Recovery
If you want to capitalize on your sobriety you must follow your game plan. Recovering from addiction is more than simply abstaining from using alcohol or drugs. Recovery requires continuous growth, change, and an improved sense of self, and establishing a personal game plan. Additionally, living in recovery means that the individual needs to continuously reflect on their actions as well as their impacts.
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Fight Like David
There are times when your addiction may feel like a giant, but it's a giant compared to what? In this week's episode, the Agents of Recovery deviate off of their assigned topic to discuss how to fight like David battling Goliath. Listen as they talk about the core concepts of fighting for what you believe in, discovering that within yourself you have the answers and how to overcome any adversity life may throw at you.
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Self Discipline In Addiction Recovery
On this week's podcast, the Agents of Recovery discussed self-discipline. Listen as they take a deep dive into the attributes, components, and reasons why self-discipline is at the foundation of any success story. The Agents of Recovery each share their own experience and approaches with a common thread of success. Without self-discipline, there can be no progression. It is an absolute in the pursuit of your sobriety.
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Current Affairs and Sad Choices
This week the Agents of Recovery talk about the current affairs and the sad choices of recovery. They talk about the stigma of mental health and the new light being cast on sensitive issues by prominent people in the NFL and other platforms. They talk about the sad situation of the Las Vegas Raiders receiver, Henry Ruggs III, charged with driving under the influence (DUI) resulting in death after his car rear-ended another car and left one person dead.
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Masking Addiction
In this week's episode of the agents of recovery podcast Brock, Max, and Blu discuss the masks that are worn to hide the addict behind them. Listen as they discuss the emotional situations that placed a mask on the addict, the liar, the hopeless, and the foolish and what it took to take those masks off to reveal the true self. It takes significant trust, support, and guidance to remove the mask that hides the addict so that real healing can occur. It's time to take off your masks.
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Find Your Greatness In Recovery
This week's podcast the Agents of Recovery discuss finding your greatness in recovery. The ability to turn the mess of addiction into the message of sobriety and recovery is crucial when you discover that you can become a powerful instrument of positivity and inspiration simply by sharing your story. By being able to see the message that is tucked away in the struggle and the ability you will have to inspire other individuals as they take upon themselves the same attributes of recovery that you have, you become a powerful force in stepping out of anonymity and into advocacy. It's time to show your greatness!
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Fear vs Faith in Recovery
On today's podcast, the Agents of Recovery take a deep dive into the similarities and the significant outcomes of living a life of fear of addiction or a life of faith in recovery. Listen as they discuss principles associated with seeing the positive outcomes of decisions to correct a lifestyle versus the anxiety and depression that can grip a heart that is consumed by addiction.
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Are You A Consumer Or Producer?
In this week's addiction recovery podcast, Max Hall, Blu Robinson, and Brock Bevell discuss the different paradigms we find ourselves in by being consumers of time, energy, love, money, and resource while in addiction versus becoming a producer of all those attributes and more. Listen as the agents discuss their insight, unique perspective, and thoughts on how to recover from addiction, overcoming mental health challenges, deal with traumatic events, and more. This deep insight will assist you in developing a stronghold in your addiction recovery and put you on the path to become an agent of recovery.
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How to Rebuild Relationships After Addiction
Whether you have struggled with addiction yourself or a loved one has, there is no denying that the person using drugs or alcohol is not the only one suffering from the effects of substance abuse.
On this week's podcast, the Agents of Recovery Max, Blu, and Brock discuss rebuilding relationships with your loved one or significant other. More often than not, your loved one likely has the most love for you and may have also closely experienced the changes addiction caused. They may struggle with trust issues and emotional damage that were created during your period of substance abuse. Listen as they discuss skills and how to rebuild these relationships through recovery.
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