269: How to Become a Sobriety Warrior with Cammie Wolf Rice
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when the worst thing in the world happens? Cammie Wolf Rice lost her son to opioid addiction. He was a gifted student who was prescribed oxycontin for an operation and started a 14-year battle with opioids. After his death, Cammie used her pain as power. Learn how she is creating real change so nothing like this happens to another family.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.1 | their story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.5 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Soberful podcast. |
| 0:31.8 | And I am joined today by Cammy Wolf Rice. |
| 0:34.9 | Hi, Cammy. |
| 0:35.8 | Hi, Veronica. |
| 0:37.0 | It's really nice to meet you. Cammy reached out to me |
| 0:39.6 | on Instagram and when I checked it out, I was like, oh yes, oh yes. I want to speak to this woman. |
| 0:46.3 | I want to hear her story. Cammy is a philanthropist, an activist and a speaker and I think an |
| 0:53.6 | accidental activist. Why don't you tell us about your |
| 0:57.1 | foundation and why you're here and what brought you to this work? Thank you, Veronica, and I appreciate |
| 1:01.9 | the platform to share all the wonderful work that's happening. So unfortunately, it starts with a |
| 1:07.5 | tragedy. My son, Christopher, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and had a major |
| 1:13.6 | surgery his senior year in high school. It happened to be at the exact same time that Purdue |
| 1:19.6 | Pharma released the wonder drug, OxyContin. And we went home with 90, followed by 90 more. |
| 1:27.4 | And one prescription hijacked his brain. And this was a kid that was, |
| 1:34.3 | he had aspirations to be a Navy SEAL, super disciplined, AP student, you know, just, just a powerful, |
| 1:42.7 | powerful, amazing kid. And it hijacked his life and mine. And I did |
| 1:47.8 | exactly what the doctors told me to do. And that was to give them to him every four hours. |
| 1:53.7 | And he was in pain. But there was nobody to talk about the mental side of being ill. There was |
| 1:59.2 | nobody to warn us of the dangers of being on opioids and my God to go home |
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