Do What You Can Live With: Navigating Through Addiction and Recovery
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Do what you can live with: Navigating Through Addiction and Recovery is a podcast that shares the struggles of loving someone with substance use disorder, and explores harm reduction and the lived experiences of those in recovery. Hosted by Brandi Mac, a critical care nurse practitioner, and mother of an adult daughter with substance use disorder. Each episode provides raw and real lived experience and the struggles we face as loved ones of people who use drugs, the stigma surrounding addiction, harm reduction and the impact generational trauma has on each of us.
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The Drug Supply Is Changing: Nitazines, Medetomidine, Meth & Why "Rock Bottom" Is Deadly
Overdoses are declining in the United States. That is worth celebrating. But what most families do not realize is this: the drug supply is changing fast. And in many ways, it is becoming more unpredictable and more dangerous. In this episode of Do What You Can Live With , Brandi Mac breaks down what
Alcohol Is a Drug: How Big Alcohol Shaped Addiction Language, Policy, and Shame-Bonus Episode
Alcohol is the most normalized drug in America and one of the deadliest. In this episode of the Do What You Can Live With Podcast , critical care nurse practitioner and author Brandi Mac exposes how the trillion-dollar alcohol industry shaped the language we use around addiction, influenced federal
Mom Loses Daughter to Cocaine Overdose, Not Fentanyl | Melissa Ledesma
What does "rock bottom" really mean when you love a child in active addiction? In this episode of the Do What You Can Live With podcast, I sit down with Melissa Ledesma, a mother who lost her daughter, Angel, to a cocaine overdose in 2023. Not fentanyl. Not opioids. Cocaine. Melissa shares the truth