Episode 991: From Addict to Officer - Overcoming Drug Addiction w/ Craig Martin

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

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4.9 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Officer Craig Martin shares his story of overcoming his drug addiction, navigating the road to recovery, and becoming a police officer for the West Homestead Police Department.

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Teaser

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Intro

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From Addict to Officer: Craig’s story of addiction and recovery

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Midroll

00:39:41:08 - 01:10:18:08

Susceptibility to temptation

01:10:18:08 - 01:19:13:20

Failures in modern-day law enforcement training

01:19:13:20 - 01:32:27:17

Learning to not care about what other people think

01:32:27:17 - 01:38:20:03

The #1 quality of a leader

01:38:20:03 - 01:49:57:17

Judgment & Craig’s message to the world about addicts

01:49:57:17 - 01:51:09:24

Outro

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0:00.0	Hey guys, make sure you check out streetcop.com for all of our upcoming courses in person,
0:04.4	our online courses, and Streetcop University, you have training right at your fingertips,
0:08.8	and we've made it so affordable, so reasonable that everybody can get an opportunity to train
0:12.8	because we know you guys need to help. We design this for you. Make sure you check out
0:16.4	streetcop.com. I am a open and recovering addict that found recovery and am now a municipal police officer
0:24.6	coming up on eight years clean of both opiate and cocaine addiction to include yes, heroin and crack
0:30.9	cocaine. And they sent a 16, 17 year old out the door with a pill bottle. I'm not kidding you,
0:36.6	like the size of this pop can
0:38.2	with two refills of Vikingin 750s. And I didn't really abuse them, but that's where I got my taste
0:43.2	for opiates. Before you know it, that one pill a day every other day turned into like multiple
0:49.1	pills every single day. I'm starting to feel ill if I don't do it. The second you hit that last piece of crack,
0:55.1	you would rob Jesus Christ on a street corner if it meant one more hit. There was a lot of self-discovery
1:00.9	that needed to take place. I do honestly believe that the Lord truly performed a miracle in my life
1:06.9	and removed my desire to want to do drugs.
1:23.2	You guys, welcome this episode of the Street Cop Training podcast.
1:25.2	We're host founder and CEO of Street Cop Training.
1:31.0	My name is Dennis Benino, and we have with us today a guy who goes by the name, Craig Martin.
1:36.6	Craig has probably one of the most interesting stories I think anybody's ever going to hear and get a catch you completely off guard because he caught me completely off guard when he took my class a couple months ago, maybe a month and a half ago, something like that.
1:43.3	So Craig, thanks for being here. First off, how was class? It was awesome. Thank you for having me. I really
1:50.6	appreciate the opportunity to be here today. The class was like in my short career in law
1:55.8	enforcement, the best I've ever been to just because of the realness that you bring to it.
2:02.5	You know, it's not like this dressed up nonsense of like, you know, it's, it's just real.
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