Facing Fentanyl: Recent Episodes
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This is the story of Rob and the first time he experienced Fentanyl. This is a personal narrative podcast series delving into the roots of substance use disorders as a social and cultural documentary to understand the history of the medication seen through actual experience, roots of behavior and biological impacts of fentanyl on a person's life and the options, incentives, and resources available to leave this powerful opiate behind.
The following interviews depict substance use and mental health disorders including abuse, depression, suicide, and trauma, If you or someone you know are suffering from these disorders, we recommend reaching out to the national prevention lifeline at suicidepreventionlifeline.org or the national alliance on mental health at nami.org. Listener discretion is advised.
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“Not everyone makes it back. I’m lucky”. Bill gives us advice for parents, loved ones, and family on how to help, support, or intervene with someone suffering from fentanyl addiction....
learn the hard way with everything". Jail makes it possible for Bill to get off Fentanyl. Facing prison is an incentive to want to stay sober. I've tried to get sober before but I try a program that is embracing, becomes a community, and blessed to have been picked up after jail.
Pain pills are not enough. Who are these people around me? What am I doing around them? How did I get here? I’m offered heroin. It’s cheaper and stronger. I’m...
You’re lucky you are alive, Bill gets told. But I have a game in 2 days? There’s no medicine strong enough for the pain. The pain in my body, but...
They prescribe Bill painkillers. After 11 days in the ICU, being on crutches and being told to have other dreams other than football simply doesn’t hit home. The pain of...
Fentanyl was not in the landscape of Bill’s dream. He was an up-and-coming local football star waiting for a college scholarship. His identity revolved around this game. Waking up in...
How exactly can you help a loved one who is suffering from Fentanyl addiction? Hear it from the personal story of Rob, the windows of opportunity, how his family helped by stopping getting him out of consequences, and the anti-intuitive behavior of supporting addiction by letting go and what this letting go really means.
"My esophagus was burning from throwing up so much. I couldn't help. I couldn't sleep." Rob gets sober at a detox. He embraces a 12 step community. People help and love him. He shares the variables that brought him to a place of regaining trust from family and friends.
Rob wakes up on the floor with her girlfriend on top of him. "You overdosed!" This wasn't the first time. Snorting Fentanyl keeps crossing the line, and thanks to Narcan, he can come back to life. Rob opens up about his past dealing with parents suffering from alcoholism and addiction. Dad commits suicide. Mom gets sober. "It's not why I got high. Did it probably play a part? Absolutely." The gateway drug was the traumatic environment.
Rob took his friend's grandma's minivan to drive down to Florida to get legally prescribed opiates.
This is the story of Rob, a student exposed to opiate prescriptions from a friend's parent medicine cabinet and furthered later by doctors
This is the story of Rob and the first time he experienced Fentanyl. This is a personal narrative podcast series delving into the roots of substance use disorders as a...