EP 092 Addiction and recovery with Ryan Earp

Crude Conversations

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Society & Culture

5 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In this episode, Cody has a conversation with his longtime friend Ryan Earp. He’s a recovering alcoholic and addict, and continues to share his story of recovery. It’s a story that starts out in high school and ends in jail and rehab. It’s about how substance abuse eventually takes you to a dark place that you never thought it would get to. He says that it was family and friends that eventually helped him make the decision to get sober. They never lost faith in who he could become once he left the alcohol and the drugs. After high school, Ryan left home to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, but bad decisions and addiction got in the way. Because of a DUI, he moved home to Alaska and eventually found himself in an even worse spot, where he had to have some type of mind-altering substance in his system just to get out of bed in the morning. It was a full-blown addiction that ended in a drug bust in Ketchikan, where he was charged with 12 felonies and was looking at 8 to 10 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode. In this one, I have a conversation with my longtime friend,
0:15.2	Ryan Erp. He's a recovering alcoholic and addict and continues to tell his story of recovery.
0:21.6	It's a story that starts out in high school and ends in jail and rehab. It's about how substance
0:26.8	abuse eventually takes you to a dark place that you never thought it could get to. He says that
0:32.3	it was family and friends that eventually helped him make the decision to get sober. They never
0:36.9	lost faith in who he could become once he left the alcohol and the drugs.
0:43.2	This podcast is made possible through the generous support of the Crude Magazine Patreon
0:47.7	subscribers. If you already subscribed to the Crude Magazine Patreon, thank you. For those
0:52.8	listeners who aren't, please consider subscribing at www.patreon.com slash Crude Magazine.
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1:38.8	your money and your support make these conversations possible. You can also support this podcast
1:45.6	for the one-time payment at buymeacoffee.com slash Crude Magazine. That's buymeacoffee.com slash Crude Magazine.
1:57.9	And if you have a chance to rate or review Crude Conversations on Apple podcasts, please do.
2:04.8	Okay, back to Ryan Irp. After high school, Ryan left home to pursue his dream of becoming an actor,
2:11.2	but bad decisions and addiction got in the way. Because of a DUI, he moved back home to Alaska
2:17.2	and eventually found himself in an even worse spot, where he had to have some type of mind-altering
2:22.4	substance in his system just to get out of bed in the morning. It was a full blown addiction
2:27.3	that ended in a drug bust in Ketchikan, where he was charged with 12 felonies and was looking at
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