Welcome back to the peripheral.

On this week's episode, I speak with Brock, who gets mixed up with drugs and addiction.

He takes us through his story, starting out when he first tries drugs all the way

to hitting lockbott. I was fascinated by his story because during his journey of addiction,

he starts buying some of his drugs from Silk Road, the online

black market store that resides in the deep web. I also was impressed with this story

because you get to hear from beginning to end the story art of what it's like to be a heroin addict.

I feel that it doesn't glamorize drugs, but it's an honest opinion about why people use drugs.

So you might hear us joke and laugh a little bit during the episode, but do not let that

distract you from the seriousness of what's happening.

Are you there?

Hey, can you hear me?

I can hear you fine.

How old were you when you started using drugs and how did that

progress? Guy was really good. I never even, I never even, when I was younger, I never smoked a cigarette or even

tasted beer until I was probably 14, maybe 15. And then one Christmas I went down to home, which is Illinois.

I live in Minnesota now.

My cousin was down there and he always, I wanted to try smoking pot and I knew he did.

So I went out to go smoke and he ended up giving me spice, which is like synthetic marijuana,

if you know about that.

Yeah, K2 kind of stuff.

Yeah, exactly.

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