Candy, Sugar, and Cravings with Guest Molly Carmel

You put down the alcohol or the drugs — and picked up sugar instead. If that sounds familiar, this Halloween episode is for you. Molly Carmel, an addictions and eating-disorder therapist and the author of Breaking Up with Sugar, joins Damon to talk about the addiction nobody takes seriously: sugar. Molly nearly died of food addiction herself, and she explains why sugar is so hard to quit — you've been in a relationship with it since your first birthday cake, you can't simply stop eating, and today's ultra-processed food is not your grandma's sugar. They also get into why Halloween kicks off the "Bermuda Triangle" of relapse season — Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas — and how to make it through without trading one addiction for another.