Addiction, Accountability, and the Power of DNA with Bob Forrest

The Dr. Drew Podcast

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Talk Radio, Comedy, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dr. Drew welcomes back musician and addiction counselor, Bob Forrest, for a candid discussion on addiction, recovery, and personal growth. Bob opens up about his son’s emerging music career, the challenges of parenting, and his wife’s battle with addiction and postpartum depression. Together, they explore the evolving landscape of addiction treatment, touching on harm reduction, the role of Suboxone, and how programs today often lack accountability while fostering a victimhood mentality. Bob also shares his insights on DNA4Addiction, a tool designed to test for genetic predisposition to addiction and provide families with valuable resources to navigate these challenges. https://dna4addiction.com Please support the show by checking out our sponsors! Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at SHOPIFY.COM/drew

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0:00.0	Thank you all.
0:01.0	Everybody, welcome the podcast.
0:02.0	Appreciate y'all being here.
0:03.0	Today is my distinct pleasure, but bring my old friend and colleague back,
0:16.0	the one and only Bob Forrest, yeah Bob.
0:18.0	Oh my God, I've been looking forward to this for two months.
0:20.5	You're hard to book.
0:21.5	He had to book too much months in advance to talk to Dr Drew.
0:25.2	The good news is we're so far behind now that this will go right to air.
0:30.5	This will be... Normally we're poking them like three months ahead.
0:35.0	So anyway, here we are.
0:37.0	So, I don't know where to start.
0:40.0	Well, how you been, what's going on, what's the latest? We got a lot to catch up on.
0:44.0	Oh, just so much. Good stuff, bad stuff. That's the thing. I don't know about your life, but I just thought once you get to be like past 60 everything slows down it doesn't slow down you got
0:56.3	Grown adult kids that are mad at you. I got kids that are mad at you. I got kids that are mad at me. I got a video shoot going on in my house because my son's a video star. It's crazy.
1:06.0	Remember Elvis was born when we were doing celebrity rehab I think 2010 and now he's 14s and he's just you know they're
1:20.1	shooting a video in the kitchen right now. Oh my God.
1:23.8	So he does, what kind of, is he an influencer?
1:26.3	He's a musician, and this is a rock video, but it's got a storyline to it and whatever.
1:31.8	He's a talented young man.
1:34.0	He really is.
1:35.0	You know, and it's hard to guide somebody that, you know,
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