Casey Mahoney
Drug and Alcohol Prevention Speaking
Casey Mahoney is available in the Southern California area to provide a fun and interactive program to children from grades 7-12. His presentation, entitled “Sober Superpowers,” highlights the potential that lies within us all if we decide to commit to a lifetime of sobriety.
While most speakers tell a frightening life story of addiction and misery, Casey adds the perspective of someone who grew up surrounded by substance abuse, but chose never to try drugs or alcohol.
Where can your life take you if you decide to be a person who will never take one drink or try one drug? Casey contends that there’s a good chance you will end up happier, more successful, and more fulfilled than those who chose to experiment with drugs and alcohol.
This presentation contrasts the outcomes Casey has experienced with the outcomes experienced by others who have tried drugs and alcohol. Kids will hear about many different reasons it’s easier to simply skip the “experimentation stage” than it would be to quit drugs later, including:
- The 5 ways substance use can destroy your life: death or overdose from drugs, accidental death or injury while intoxicated, imprisonment, violence, incapacitating mental illness.
- The 5 “quiet killers,” which are the ways drugs can quietly reduce your quality of life: mediocre career performance, lack of education, loss of relationships, low quality relationships with low quality people, long term health problems.
- The difficult process of getting off drugs or alcohol. Rehab only has a 5% success rate. Rehab won’t be around much longer, it costs too much. Learn about the difficult life of a hard-working drug addict, and what daily life is like for opiate addicts. Fentanyl is now being added to “softer” party drugs like ecstasy and cocaine, causing overdoses and death in people who only party on the weekend
- “My mistakes and how they could have been much worse.” Even as a sober person, everyone will make mistakes. However the mistakes don’t become catastrophic if you’re not using drugs or alcohol.
- The joy of being sober. Despite avoiding drugs, Casey was able to overcome social anxiety and develop the kind of active social life that most people believe requires drinking in bars.
- Sober Superpowers. Experimenting with drugs and alcohol causes minor, undetectable brain damage and decreased motivation. A person who chooses not to go down this road develops an elite level of brain functioning and motivation, as compared to someone who engages in occasional drug or alcohol use. By developing these “Sober Superpowers,” Casey has been able to accomplish things that have been out of reach for occasional drinkers and weed-smokers.
Sober Superpowers resulted in:
Winning a college basketball championship with Adelphi University under head Coach Steve Clifford (now with the NBA’s Orlando Magic).
A music career that included over a million audience members on tour, signing a record deal, a song on the radio, and 12 years of touring with big names like Broadway’s Rent, Megadeth, Disturbed, Drowning Pool, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, and many more.
Helping to keep over 10,000 kids off drugs with the Queens Community House.
Helped hundreds of drug addicts along the road to sobriety with Healing Path Recovery and Dr. Sayeh Beheshti.
