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The Secret Room | True Stories

39. Addiction

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Chris’ sideways story about being addicted to one of the worst drugs out there. Bath Salts. It’s bad, heavy stuff. And yeah, it made him to some crazy shiz.

Pictures: The house where Chris did bath salts and got caught; and the drugs he used to buy, can both be seen at facebook.com/secretroompod.

Smart Recovery: The addiction recovery support group that helped Chris beat drugs.

Inside Out: The song by Inside Out that Chris read which sums up his addiction. YouTube.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's your secret? So in college my brother and I were gonna build my computer

0:05.0

because like we're super computer nerds and so we ordered all the parts online

0:10.3

and it was about like a thousand dollars in parts and we were gonna build it

0:14.0

together and we get the parts in the mail and we're like yay and then two days

0:18.4

later another box of the same parts shows up and being computer nerds are like

0:24.1

well now I can make a super computer but only if they don't ask for this back so

0:29.0

we waited for like a good couple of weeks to see if they would say anything like

0:33.0

they would send us an email or call us nothing ever happened so we made a

0:38.2

super computer out of the parts and it was awesome did you calculate pie with

0:44.5

the super computer? We did not but there was a lot of other things that were

0:49.9

awesome about the computer you know yeah you can surf porn really fast no

0:55.7

comment hey everyone it's Ben the warning label on today's edition of the

1:12.2

podcast reads adult language and adult themes so if you need to save this one

1:16.3

for me time press pause and I'll see you back here when you get to your

1:19.3

personal space to those of you sticking around let's get started Chris is

1:24.8

today's cast he's 36 and he lives in the Midwest he's studying for his

1:29.4

masters in cybersecurity gets on well with his family and has been in a

1:33.5

relationship with a woman for a year it all sounds pretty good right while

1:37.5

getting there's been a long dark road involving drugs alcohol sex and well

1:43.5

I'll let Chris tell the story that extra element could surprise you strap in

1:48.6

we'll get started right now this is the secret room a podcast about the

1:54.0

stories no one ever tells I'm Ben Han holding on for my life hanging on by a

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