(Encore) Harm Reduction, The Opioid Crisis, and The Miracle Future

Welcome to today’s show! 

 

WHAT WE’LL LEARN

 

• How David’s earliest memories were rooted in sadness & depression and he felt like something was terribly wrong with him.
• David was put on anti-depressants is his early teens but felt “nothing was working.”
• How a Cop was the greatest endorsement for heroin use.
• When at Hazelden, David was told by staff he needed to put his life & will in God’s hands and work the steps of A.A.
• David, as a devout Atheist, felt this treatment approach was not going to work for him.
• After parents gave David “tough love” and an ultimatum, he went to a halfway house but felt “it was a joke” be/c all he wanted to do was use again.
• David then went on a mission to show his parents that addiction was not a disease and he could stop at will.
• After his friend overdosed and thinking about the permanence of death, David believed this would motivate him to stop using heroin.
• How David found Buprenorphine when looking for a reliable, safe source of an opioid to start the healing process.
• What the struggles were with obtaining buprenorphine from doctors in 2008.
• What’s David’s response to the Opioid Crisis.
• What David thinks the “miracle future” of addiction treatment looks like (hint: it involves science and facts).

RESOURCES MENTIONED

 

• The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous
• DavidTheKick-Twitter
• Davidposes.com

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