Hard Knox Talks: Your Addiction Podcast
Jun 5, 2026 · 31 min · 12 segments
Send us Fan Mail Alex shares her journey through IV heroin addiction, fentanyl, abusive relationships, grief, losing her children, and the spiritual…
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I was raised in South Georgia by my grandfather, who had just retired from being chief of police in my hometown, and my father, who was a Vietnam veteran, per-part recipient, great man, real kind, compassionate, empathetic.
And my mom had moved to Indiana because she was on drugs.
And being in a smaller town where your father was chief of police, you're less likely to get in trouble.
You kind of get free passes.
I guess I earned for my mother to be in my life or have some part of knowing her deeper, even though my grandmother had Consciously went out of her way to let me know that she was a drug addict and left me.
Well, I then would visit my mom at Christmas break, spring break, summer in Indianapolis, Indiana.
And she would roll joints in front of me, would be like, look for the cops and would have the steering wheel with her knee and be rolling a joint with the other.
So she slowly exposed me to that.
She went to treatment a few times, spent my college fund on drugs.
She did a lot of hurtful things.
And by my sophomore year, I had met I guess my high school sweetheart.
His family owned which is a big development company.
They're on a totally different level.
Multiple houses, yacht, you know, that kind of thing, traveling wherever they want.
And his dad had a restaurant and I first was exposed to cocaine and pharmaceuticals and other things, drinking.
I never became much of a drinker because it just made me sick.
But numbing myself in other ways, I got familiar with.
And I lived with them in their huge house until after I graduated.
Well, he was a year younger than me, so I...
I was raised in South Georgia by my grandfather, who had just retired from being chief of police in my hometown, and my father, who was a Vietnam veteran, per-part recipient, great man, real kind, compassionate, empathetic.
And my mom had moved to Indiana because she was on drugs.
And being in a smaller town where your father was chief of police, you're less likely to get in trouble.
You kind of get free passes.
I guess I earned for my mother to be in my life or have some part of knowing her deeper, even though my grandmother had Consciously went out of her way to let me know that she was a drug addict and left me.
Well, I then would visit my mom at Christmas break, spring break, summer in Indianapolis, Indiana.
And she would roll joints in front of me, would be like, look for the cops and would have the steering wheel with her knee and be rolling a joint with the other.
So she slowly exposed me to that.
She went to treatment a few times, spent my college fund on drugs.
She did a lot of hurtful things.
And by my sophomore year, I had met I guess my high school sweetheart.
His family owned which is a big development company.
They're on a totally different level.
Multiple houses, yacht, you know, that kind of thing, traveling wherever they want.
And his dad had a restaurant and I first was exposed to cocaine and pharmaceuticals and other things, drinking.
I never became much of a drinker because it just made me sick.
But numbing myself in other ways, I got familiar with.
And I lived with them in their huge house until after I graduated.
Well, he was a year younger than me, so I...
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