Welcome to Lost Anchorage,

Lost Anchorage, where crude investigates the mechanisms of crime and violence in Anchorage,

Alaska.

My name is Cody Liska, and I'll be your host. Through research and interviews with professionals, law enforcement, and those affected by crime, I hope to build a better understanding of whether or not Anchorage is in fact becoming more dangerous.

By the end of this series, I hope to create a portrait of crime in our city for better or for worse. You're going to be here. My name is Joe Ramber and I wanted to talk to you today about and tell my story about my life.

A lot of alcohol abuse and drug abuse in my life and how I got sober and hopefully it'll help someone else get sober and stay alive.

So this is completely transparent to listeners.

We know each other and you contacted me because you were interested in talking with me about your experience

with drug abuse correct yes sir where does that story start for me it starts when I was a kid

in what way?

Um, well, when I, you know, growing up, I was the baby of the family of like, uh,

seven total kids, I think it was. And I was the run so I always felt weird as a

little kid man I feel like I never fit in just being the runt with older

brothers and older siblings I was always you know kind of left behind and and I was also

spoiled by my parents more so it was just kind of I was treated differently it was a different kid

and how was your home life?

Home life is great.

I was raised by two wonderful parents.

My dad drank back in the day but it never

affected me negatively. He was always a happy drinker. Mom was a sweetheart, you

know, raised us right. She grew up on homestead and anchor point so you know she was old

school and you know my brothers were great too and you know we raised motocross we did everything outside

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