BBC Radio Podcasts from Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts

Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts

Celebrating Visible Recovery

In the final episode, Melissa and Jade speak about celebrating visible recovery.

Codependency

Melissa and Jade look at codependency and how it can affect addiction.

Sex and porn addiction

Melissa and Jade explore the misconceptions around sex and porn addiction.

Routes To Recovery

Melissa and Jade explore different ways people achieve recovery.

Gaming

Melissa and Jade learn about gaming addiction and how it can be treated.

Cultural Barriers

Melissa and Jade hear about cultural barriers that can be faced in addiction and recovery

Mental health

Melissa and Jade talk about managing mental health and addiction.

Social Media

Melissa and Jade talk about social media usage and how it can become problematic.

Relapse

Melissa and Jade talk about what can lead to a relapse and the help that is available.

Lockdown

Back for a second series, Melissa and Jade talk about how recovery has been in lockdown.

Your Stories

Melissa and Jade hear some of your stories that you've shared with Hooked.

Children of Addicts

Melissa and Jade speak to Josh Connolly about being a child of an addict.

Employment

Discussing the problems that arise in employment due to active addiction and recovery.

Drugs in prisons

Melissa and Jade speak to Viv, a former prisoner who talks about drug use in prisons.

Chemsex

Melissa and Jade learn about chemsex from a former addict.

Prescription drugs

Melissa and Jade speak to Nicki who was addicted to prescription drugs for 20 years.

Sober Christmas

Melissa and Jade talk about what Christmas is like for them in recovery.

Sober dating

Melissa and Jade talk about what it's like to start dating after you get clean and sober.

Friends and Family

We hear about how the girls' addictions affected their friends and family.

What do you do for fun?

DJ Fat Tony talks to the girls about misconceptions people have about recovering addicts.

Food addiction

Jade and Melissa speak to a woman who has had food addiction since she was a child.

Rehab

Melissa and Jade talk about their time in rehab and how to access help.

Gambling

Former footballer Tony Adams talks to Melissa and Jade about setting up Sporting Chance.

Why don’t you just stop?

Jade and Melissa talk about control vs abstinence and how addiction progresses.

Addiction: a disease or is it self-inflicted?

TV host Richard Bacon joins the girls to talk about his experience of alcohol and drugs.

The Rock Bottom

Melissa and Jade talk about how hitting the rock bottom was the start of their recovery.

Hooked: the preview

Drink, drugs, addiction: it can happen to anyone. Incredible highs to rock bottom lows.