How To Kick a Meth Habit
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 29 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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| 0:31.5 | I don't know, it's maybe six months into recovery. My girlfriend found a empty baggy of heroin as she was cleaning up. |
| 0:40.9 | And she looked like a ghost. |
| 0:43.3 | I said to her, there's nothing I can do except live the right way today to prove to you |
| 0:49.1 | that I am still in recovery, and hopefully this will be something we talk about 20 years from now, and it is. |
| 0:59.5 | Welcome to how to. I'm Charles Dubick. |
| 1:02.6 | Each week on the show, we try to help people overcome a problem in their lives. |
| 1:06.9 | And today we've got a listener who has been working hard, really hard, to make this massive change. |
| 1:13.3 | But he's worried that it won't last. |
| 1:16.0 | My name is Jason. I live in a small town, very small. |
| 1:20.5 | It's in southern Illinois in the Shawnee National Forest. |
| 1:23.7 | So I'd spend a lot of time hiking, camping, fishing, stuff like that. |
| 1:29.1 | But a lot of people know Jason for something else. |
| 1:32.2 | Yeah, I am an addict. |
| 1:35.2 | Jason has struggled with drug addiction for over a decade. |
| 1:38.3 | And primarily, it's been addiction to crystal meth, |
| 1:41.3 | which is widely available in rural areas like where he lives. |
| 1:45.3 | And Jason's wife has also used meth. But despite that, they've been pretty responsible |
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