How To Kick a Meth Habit
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Jason has been addicted to meth for the past 15 years, which is not uncommon in his small Illinois town. Every time Jason stopped using he would relapse, until last year when the state took custody of his two kids. Since then he's sobered up, but is worried about making it last. In this episode of How To!, we bring in Fred Muench, a clinical psychologist and recovering heroin addict who is now the president of Center on Addiction/Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. Muench knows how hard it is to beat the stigma of addiction. To convince people he's changed, Fred says, Jason must first convince himself.
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| 0:00.0 | I remember, I don't know, it's maybe six months into recovery, my girlfriend found a |
| 0:07.1 | empty baggie of heroin as she was cleaning up and she looked like a ghost. I said to her, there's nothing I can do except live the right way |
| 0:17.2 | today to prove to you that I am still in recovery and hopefully this will be something we talk about 20 years |
| 0:26.2 | from now and it is. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome to how to I'm Charles Tumik. Each week on the show we try to help people overcome a problem in their lives and today we've got a listener who has been working hard, really hard to make this massive change. But he's worried that it won't last. |
| 0:45.0 | My name is Jason. I live in a small town, very small. |
| 0:50.0 | It's in southern Illinois and the Shawnee National Forest. |
| 0:53.0 | So I spent a lot of time hiking, camping, fishing, stuff like that. |
| 0:59.0 | But a lot of people know Jason for something else. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, I am an addict. Jason has struggled with drug |
| 1:06.6 | addiction for over a decade and primarily it's been addiction to crystal meth |
| 1:10.9 | which is widely available in rural areas like where he lives. |
| 1:15.5 | And Jason's wife has also used Meth. |
| 1:17.4 | But despite that, they've been pretty responsible upstanding citizens. |
| 1:21.3 | They both had jobs and they were good parents to their two kids. But then last year, the |
| 1:25.8 | Department of Child and Family Services knocked on the door. |
| 1:28.6 | The day they showed up, we had gotten some pretty bad stuff and I guess we were acting |
| 1:36.2 | differently or we were looking different but somebody had notified |
| 1:41.1 | DCFS and they |
| 1:42.8 | and they shut up and knocked on our door. |
| 1:45.4 | How old are your kids? |
| 1:47.8 | 14 and 2. |
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