Post Mortem

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4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Chelsea Dalsey tells Kevin Allison about her journey with addiction and the process of truly coming to terms with her experience. Check out all of our Conversation Stories! 🎙️Conversation Story: Post Mortem by Chelsea Dalsey SYNOPSIS: While working on cadavers in med school, Chelsea desperately hides her addiction to heroin and cocaine. Now, decades later, she has a realization about why she was finally able to quit the drugs. keywords: med school, addiction, recovery 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in New York on 9/25 • ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ • ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:03.0	Hello, folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they
0:24.4	dare to share.
0:25.9	I'm Kevin Allison.
0:27.2	This is Esther Garcia behind me now.
0:29.7	And this is one of our conversation story episodes where someone tells a story to me,
0:35.6	and we talk about it.
0:36.7	Simple as that. Hey, guess what?
0:39.4	You can now vote for which stories you think we should include in the best of risk number 33.
0:46.7	If you go to risk dash show.com slash the best of risk. You'll see how you can click on the story
0:53.3	summaries of some of our favorite stories
0:55.8	of the past six months, and you can click on about 10 that ring a bell for you, stories you
1:01.9	remember that you liked. And if you have your votes in by noon on Wednesday, September 10th,
1:09.9	that's Eastern Time, you will have had a say in what
1:16.4	stories we feature on the 33rd of our best of risk episodes. Now, listen, I deliberately
1:26.4	scheduled this episode to be appearing in your podcast feed once I am getting settled in Bangkok.
1:36.5	I'm recording myself right now in my apartment in New York, which is currently being discontinued.
1:43.6	What do you say? Deconstructed. But by the time you're hearing this, I will
1:50.1	have moved. And the reason I wanted to feature this episode, once I'm moved, is that so many
1:58.2	people have written to us saying, oh no, Kevin's moving is risk going to end?
2:04.6	And the answer is, come hell or high water,
2:09.2	we are going to keep risk running.
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