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🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 132 minutes
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0:00.0 | I absolutely couldn't stop. I knew I needed to stop. I acknowledged that I was a drug addict. |
0:07.2 | I knew that I was going to probably die if I didn't stop. I had been Odeeing, stopped breathing |
0:14.2 | a number of times in the middle of the night. Like waking up literally was someone on, |
0:19.2 | like a girlfriend on top of me, like basically banging on my chest, like freaking out because |
0:24.4 | I wasn't breathing. Maintaining a supply of these pills was really my only focus. And I had never |
0:34.8 | worked harder at anything in my life. I had never been as committed to anything in my life before |
0:42.0 | that point, which is fascinating in and of itself, right? Because here I was, I was running this |
0:46.8 | magazine and I had a big job at Details, but this was really the only thing that I paid any |
0:54.7 | true, true attention to. Taking pills were my feedings and I was feeding this beast of this |
1:00.7 | addiction. And so I ultimately got to 15 at a time and I was doing it about four times a day. |
1:06.5 | And so it was a constant search for pills. It's all I cared about. That's Dan Paris and this. |
1:16.8 | It's the Rich Roll Podcast. |
1:28.2 | The Rich Roll Podcast. Hey everybody, how goes it? What's the word? My name is Rich Roll. I am |
1:34.9 | indeed your host. Let's do this podcast thing. Here's what we know. Every single day, over 130 people |
1:44.1 | in the US die from an opioid overdose. 40% of those involved a prescription. About one quarter |
1:51.9 | of all patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain end up misusing them. That is 10.3 million |
1:59.2 | people. How about this stat? About 80% of people who use heroin first misuse prescription opioids. |
2:08.3 | Think about that. I mean, really think about that. A tragic epidemic of untold proportions, |
2:15.5 | opioid addiction has basically precipitated this massive, massive public health crisis, |
2:24.0 | destroying millions of lives unnecessarily. Also, taxing our economy at the rate of 78.5 billion |
2:30.6 | dollars per year. So how do we get here? Well, we got here because in the late 1990s, |
2:38.4 | big pharmaceutical companies started pushing these powerful pills, stuff like viking and oxycodone, |
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