Ep 63: Lara Frazier on opiates, psychosis, sex, love and more

Lara Frazier on Prescription Drugs; Psychosis and Why Putting Female and Male Sex Addicts in the Same Treatment Centre Isn’t a Good Idea Welcome to Episode # 63 of The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast and my guest Lara Frazier Lara Frazier is a healer and truth-teller, a sobriety warrior and a pig mama. She is a love junkie & a writer, a student & a teacher. Lara shares a story of healing: in sobriety, through addiction, in life and love, and in all the other big huge moments of fear and magic that we rarely talk about, but we should. Lara Frazier lives in Dallas, TX with her pig, Peaches. She is also the Co-Founder of AddictionUnscripted.com. She documents her story of healing in the most authentic and vulnerable way she knows how; through her own eyes and with her whole heart. In this episode, Lara and I talk about her addiction to prescription drugs and how her doctors kept prescribing her more as a form of treatment. We speak of the inadvertent pressures applied through parenting. Scary drug psychosis moments that end up with sharp implements carving into skin, and why putting male and female sex addicts into a single treatment centre isn't always a great idea. Podcast Takeaways Lara Frazier Personal Blog - http://larafrazier.com Hip Sobriety - http://www.hipsobriety.com/ Addiction Unscripted - https://addictionunscripted.com/ Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction by John Dupuy https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1438446144 This Naked Mind - http://www.needyhelper.com/this-naked-mind-by-annie-grace-a-book-review/ Recovery 2.0 With Tommy Rosen - http://www.tommyrosen.com/yoga/ The Sobriety Collective - http://www.thesobrietycollective.com/laura-story Laura McKowen - http://www.lauramckowen.com/ Outro Thanks for listening. Before you go, if you have any questions for Lara or me, then please leave them in the comments section on the blog, or you can message me at needyhelper@gmail.com. If you find the AA Podcast a valuable resource, then please tell your friends about it and share the love. You would make me a very happy man indeed if you could rate us on iTunes. Before you go, do you want to join me in the trenches and learn what life is like in the middle of an addiction story? I'm not talking about the part when you are drunk out of your skull and can't remember anything. I'm talking about what comes after you quit. How do you fill the white space? How do you find a new community? How do you find meaning and purpose? If these questions interest you, then buy my new book Needy Helper 2015 Diary Excerpts: A Life After Alcohol - amzn.to/2axGveg Talking about community, how would you like to become a member of the Needy Helper Hub? It's a new idea to create a connected community, with support and a continual personal improvement process forever. It's my intention to be online as much as I can to answer any questions you have about your addiction and to continually update the Hub with training tools, tips and techniques to help you create a whole new life. If that interests you, then click the link below to find out more - www.needyhelper.com/the-needy-helper-hub/ This podcast would not be possible without the sterling efforts of Neil Chow and Liza Lim, so big hugs and kisses to them, and also to you, the listeners, without whom this podcast wouldn't be possible, so thanks for giving me your ear to bend.