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How My Xanax Addiction Led to a 7-Year Prison Sentence in Arizona | Anthony Williams

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.9606 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Anthony Williams details how his Xanax addiction led him to crime, his arrest, and a 7-year prison sentence in Arizona. #XanaxAbuse #PrisonSentence #TrueCrime #AddictionCrisis #LegalTroubles #OvercomingAddiction #JusticeSystem #lifelessons Thank you to LUCY for sponsoring today’s episode: Let’s level up your nicotine routine with Lucy.  Go to HTTP://LUCY.CO/IANBICK and use promo code (IANBICK) to get 20% off your first order. Lucy has a 30-day refund policy if you change your mind.  Connect with Anthony Williams: Website: https://www.algamus.org/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.scott_?_t=ZT-8to9i8aIsH8&_r=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tony.scott.music?igsh=OTRjMHl0ZW1hNjA0&utm_source=qr Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/algamus_az?igsh=OXlsazhiY3BzMGJm Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://convictclothing.net/collections/convict-clothing-x-ian-bick Timestamps: 00:00:00 Escaping Arizona's Warm Winters 00:04:32 Overcoming Cultural Pressure and Family Influence 00:09:10 Struggles with Education and Substance Use 00:14:04 Parental Denial and Addiction Struggles 00:18:14 A Desperate Deal with Law Enforcement 00:23:02 From Rehab to Arrest: The Turning Point 00:27:50 Impact of Crime on Small Town Community Life 00:32:37 Experiencing Racial Segregation in Jail 00:37:14 The Reality of Politics in Prison 00:41:50 Insight into the Moderate Treatment Program 00:46:30 Surviving Solitary Confinement in Arizona 00:51:21 Career Transition: From Electrician to Treatment Program 00:56:12 The History and Evolution of a Gambling Treatment Program 01:01:10 Understanding Gambling Addiction: Treatment and Challenges 01:05:52 Understanding Problem Gambling and the DSM-5 Criteria 01:10:43 Overcoming Insecurities and Building Self-Confidence 01:15:10 Networking and Collaboration Opportunities Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Anthony, welcome to Lockton, all the way from Arizona.

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Thank you. Left the warm to come to the freezing cold right now. Yeah, I picked a great time

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to come out here. Everyone keeps telling me. Yeah, I brought my snowboarding jacket. That's the first time I broke it out this winter. But we've had no winter back home. I called my fiancee last night. And I said, yeah, it's 18 degrees. And it says the feels like temperature is three. And she pulls up her weather app. And she said, yeah, it's 75 here, but the feels like temperature is three and she pulls up her weather app and she said yeah it's

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75 here but the feels like is 77 I'm jealous you know I was in Arizona like last year and like November

1:03.0

or beginning of December and um I came from L.A and L.A. was freezing like it was really really cold

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and it's like what's going on

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here? Normally, California warm. And then I went to Arizona and they were still hot over there. Yeah. I got to take off the hoodies, the sweatshirts, and still, you know, you're hot. Yeah, we've had almost no winter at all. I mean, we get down near the high 50s, and that's a, that's a rough day. You know, you see everyone breaking out the jackets

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in the high 50s, but this is a different animal out here. Well, you just missed a big ice storm.

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We actually lost power on Sunday. Wow. Yeah, bad ice storm, really icy, cold, rainy. It was

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bad snow before that. So hopefully we're almost at springtime because it's, you know, we're going in the last

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week of February.

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Did you grow up in Arizona?

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Yeah.

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So I was born in Prescott, Arizona, which is a big time recovery town, but lived in this little

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tiny mining town called Baghdad.

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And so Baghdad, Arizona, the town site is owned by the mining

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company. So the only way you live in that town is if you or a family member works for the mine.

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They provide the housing there. That's where my dad and his family are from. My dad's going to be

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the third generation to retire from Baghdad mine.

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But we ended up moving up to Kingman, Arizona, to the big city of Kingman, Arizona, which had like

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