Sep 27, 2026 · 51 min · 15 segments
In part 2 of this episode, Coy joins us to talk addiction, recovery, and the deeply inconvenient reality that staying sober actually requires effort every single day. No inspirational mountain-top…
Being around other people that were exactly like me, trying to do the same thing as me, which was basically like try to live in recovery and build our lives back from whatever kind of crap pile I had made for myself and same with my friends that were there.
And I thought I actually had it too.
Like, I think there's only like 2% of people, whoever will not go back out.
Like, honestly, the statistics for addiction are terrible.
It's really, really sad.
Honestly, the, do you have statistics? I bet you do.
This is just, this is the latest stats from the federal government public health website, just saying a total alcohol related deaths in Canada.
So it's roughly 15,000 to 18,000 Canadians die every year from alcohol related causes.
So that's 40 to 50 deaths per day, more deaths annually than many illegal drugs combined.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, we talked about the people that are like always going down from fentanyl and stuff like that.
But alcohol is the silent killer.
It is.
It really is.
And this is also, I mean, it's something in my education background that I didn't really, I mean, I didn't know about.
This is how they classify an alcohol use disorder.
So mild is two to three of these symptoms.
Moderate is four to five of these symptoms and severe is six plus.
So these are some of the common diagnostic symptoms.
Drinking more than intended, unsuccessful attempts to cut down, cravings, tolerance, needing more alcohol, withdrawal symptoms, drinking despite health slash social problems, alcohol interfering with work, parenting, relationships, or obligations, spending large amounts of time drinking or recovering.
Yeah, that's just some of them too.
Actually, the first assignment that you get given at the treatment center that I went to is literally called 31 symptoms.
And they give a tiny little brief synopsis of each one.
I think the first one's literally blackouts.
They give like a one sentence like definition of it just to make sure we don't, we understand.
Being around other people that were exactly like me, trying to do the same thing as me, which was basically like try to live in recovery and build our lives back from whatever kind of crap pile I had made for myself and same with my friends that were there.
And I thought I actually had it too.
Like, I think there's only like 2% of people, whoever will not go back out.
Like, honestly, the statistics for addiction are terrible.
It's really, really sad.
Honestly, the, do you have statistics? I bet you do.
This is just, this is the latest stats from the federal government public health website, just saying a total alcohol related deaths in Canada.
So it's roughly 15,000 to 18,000 Canadians die every year from alcohol related causes.
So that's 40 to 50 deaths per day, more deaths annually than many illegal drugs combined.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, we talked about the people that are like always going down from fentanyl and stuff like that.
But alcohol is the silent killer.
It is.
It really is.
And this is also, I mean, it's something in my education background that I didn't really, I mean, I didn't know about.
This is how they classify an alcohol use disorder.
So mild is two to three of these symptoms.
Moderate is four to five of these symptoms and severe is six plus.
So these are some of the common diagnostic symptoms.
Drinking more than intended, unsuccessful attempts to cut down, cravings, tolerance, needing more alcohol, withdrawal symptoms, drinking despite health slash social problems, alcohol interfering with work, parenting, relationships, or obligations, spending large amounts of time drinking or recovering.
Yeah, that's just some of them too.
Actually, the first assignment that you get given at the treatment center that I went to is literally called 31 symptoms.
And they give a tiny little brief synopsis of each one.
I think the first one's literally blackouts.
They give like a one sentence like definition of it just to make sure we don't, we understand.
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