Inside My Addiction to Pills & the Consequences That Followed | Maxwell White-Cohen

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Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Maxwell White-Cohen explains how his pill addiction spiraled, the impact it had on his life, and the long road to recovery. #PillAddiction #OpioidCrisis #TrueCrime #AddictionRecovery #PharmaCrisis #MentalHealth #OvercomingStruggles #hardtruths 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 Growing Up in Massachusetts: A Family Story 00:03:31 Struggles and Aspirations in High School Football 00:07:17 High School Court Struggles and False Accusations 00:11:40 Pressing Charges and Foster Care Experience 00:14:44 Teen Rebellion and Family Dynamics 00:18:27 The Start of Substance Abuse: Coping with Family Illness 00:22:42 Overcoming Xanax Withdrawal and Addiction Struggles 00:26:20 Overcoming Addiction: A Personal Journey 00:31:01 Escaping a DUI Charge: A Lucky Break 00:34:03 The Influence of Teachers on My Life 00:37:36 Overcoming Addiction and the Role of Supportive Friendships 00:41:21 Overcoming Pill Addiction: A Personal Journey 00:45:05 Overcoming Financial Irresponsibility and Substance Abuse 00:48:33 Struggles with Addiction and Personal Transformation 00:52:41 Coping with Social Anxiety and Alcohol 00:55:50 The Importance of Sharing All Stories 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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0:00.0	Hey Harry.
0:00.7	Hello mate.
0:01.5	Got any tips for the football?
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0:03.8	18 plus opt in and bet on any football marketing at odds of evens or greater no, cash out seven-day expiry terms and conditions apply at gamblerware.org. Max, welcome to Lockton, man. Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Yeah, I appreciate you for coming, making the drive from Massachusetts, right? Yeah, Oxbridge. Oxbridge?
0:38.0	Oxbridge.
0:38.4	I think you might be our first guest from there.
0:40.0	Really? Yeah, definitely.
0:41.3	There's not many people that have came out of Oxford. It's like right next to Worcester. Okay. And you've listened to the show for a while? Yeah, for years now. Awesome, man. So it's cool meeting you too, for sure. I thought you guys dope, so.
0:34.4	Yeah, yeah, well, I appreciate you coming.
0:35.8	I'm glad we got to hook you up with some of the magic mine shots and the Mike's bites.
0:39.8	Excited about those.
0:40.4	Yeah, let me I appreciate you coming. I'm glad we got to hook you up with some of the magic mind shots and the Mike's bites.
0:56.4	Excited about those. Yeah, let me know what you think. Those things are. I love those. Take them to bed.
1:01.0	I'm excited to take him tonight.
0:51.4	Yeah, I take them before sleep.
0:52.7	Some people, when they get high, it's like an upper.
0:55.2	For me, it's like a downer. Like I go right to bed.
0:56.4	I get knocked out.
0:57.8	But like my cousin, when I got high with him, he is up all night and he's like a madman.
0:58.6	Yeah. a downer like I go right to bed I get knocked out but like my cousin when I got high with him
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