CCAR Emergency Department Recovery Coach (EDRC), Zach Lewin, joins our hosts on episode 41 of the Recovery Matters! podcast. Zach shares about growing up in a small CT shoreline town with a loving family and how he even chose to be sober for a time while in high school. But as Zach explains, addiction doesn't discriminate and we're shown how the descent into a life and death struggle with substance use can come on fast and hard. From straight edge, to victim of the opioid crisis, and finally to a life in recovery working as an EDRC - Zach's story is one defined by extremes.