My Mom Got Me Hooked On Drugs At 13 — Then I Went To Prison | Justin Roark

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🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Justin Roark grew up in Tennessee in a home shaped by addiction. By the age of 13, he was already using drugs, pulled into a cycle of instability that led to group homes, juvenile detention, and eventually jail. In this episode, Justin shares how his childhood set him on a path toward crime, how that path ended with a five-year federal prison sentence, and what life was really like behind the walls. More importantly, he breaks down the moment things finally changed—getting sober, taking responsibility, and rebuilding his life after prison _____________________________________________ #truecrime #prisonstory #addictionrecovery #childhoodtrauma #realstories #lifeafterprison #lockedin _____________________________________________ Connect with Justin Roark: TikTok: @thehustledaddy Instagram: @hustletalkhd Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Shop Locked In Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop _____________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Childhood Trauma and Growing Up Too Fast 01:56 Growing Up in Tennessee With Addiction at Home 05:47 A Mother’s Addiction and Early Exposure 07:13 Smoking Cr*ck at 13 Years Old 09:21 Teenage Anger, Violence, and Chasing the Drug Life 13:13 Group Homes, Juvenile Detention, and Rebellion 20:12 Life at Wilder and the Power of Mentorship 27:02 Rehab, Relapse, and Florida’s Pill Mill Era 33:50 Living in Hotels While Deep in Addiction 39:41 Robberies, Risk, and Hitting Rock Bottom 41:54 The Crime Cycle and the Road to Federal Prison 54:47 Inside Federal Prison and Trying to Get Sober 01:00:26 Relapse, Probation Violations, and Second Chances 01:04:03 Discovering Business and Entrepreneurship After Prison 01:14:48 Adoption, Loss, and Learning Responsibility 01:20:11 Faith, Giving Back, and True Life Change 01:29:23 Losing Loved Ones and Finding Gratitude 01:34:45 Building Stability, Family, and Fatherhood 01:36:55 Purpose, Redemption, and a New Direction 01:38:49 Final Lessons and Helping Others Break the Cycle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We try to teach our kids that it's all sunshine and rainbows, but I learned from a very young age that it wasn't sunshine and rainbows, bro. Do you blame your mom looking back on it? She would have a dude in the bedroom, right? And she had trained me to, like, crawl in and take money out of this dude's wallet. Well, those images and, you know, experiences that you had with your mom or even act of an addiction as a teenager ever leave your mind. We go to breakfast or whatever. I go to take my tray up.
0:24.6	BOW! experiences that you had with your mom or even act of an addiction as a teenager ever leave your mind.
0:21.8	We go to breakfast or whatever. I go to take my tray up, bough, I get hit in the face.
0:25.9	What do you think was the worst thing you ever did for drugs in the peak of your addiction?
0:29.4	By the time he was 13, Justin Rourke was already addicted to drugs, which were introduced to him by his own mother,
0:35.8	a path that eventually led to federal prison.
0:41.7	Justin, welcome to Lockton. Thanks for coming from a little bit warm weather to be years.
0:45.8	Tennessee warm right now?
0:47.0	A little bit, man. I mean, it's still cold, but there's not snow on the ground. Like,
0:51.3	I got off the flight in New York and walked outside and I was like,
0:55.2	holy crap. I was like, it's freezing here, bro, because I was kind of like documenting my thing.
1:00.4	A little vlogging. Yeah, vlogging. Yeah. So I was like, bro, it is, it's cold. And then I checked
1:05.4	into the hotel and there was snow on the ground. I'm like, holy crap, bro. But I I mean, it's not like warm in Tennessee by no means. Probably like, I don't know, in the 50s, I'd imagine. Well, today you got us at a warm day. It's almost 50 degrees today. Snow is melting. So not much difference. But yesterday, it was chilly. And compared to like when I boarded my flight at, you know, 9 a.m.
1:28.4	until when I landed here at, I don't know, 132 o'clock.
1:31.4	Yeah, it was like a, it was a shift for sure, yeah.
1:34.1	Did you grow up in Tennessee?
1:35.6	Yeah, man.
1:36.1	So I was born in Tennessee and lived there pretty much my whole entire life.
1:41.4	You know, I moved around a little bit, a little bit in Georgia,
1:45.8	um, Kentucky. I was on the run in Kentucky. I was on the run in West Virginia. Um, yeah, man,
1:52.8	so I kind of bounced around, but I've always, Tennessee has always been my home.
1:56.3	What was your upbringing like? Um, man, I get similar to similar to pretty much everybody you've had.
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