I was on heroin and methadone and Benzo's for 12 or 13 years. I was 41. I had a sublet of department, a waiter job, and a daughter 50 miles away and a woman that didn't want to see me, but I wasn't getting sober.

Sobriety was nowhere near me.

You're not sick and tired of being sick and tired until you are.

I really learned that putting in

effort resulted in something good and when I got sober it all changed.

If you put your recovery first everything else falls into place.

Really what it requires more than anything is the addict or the alcoholic doing something.

What are you willing to do?

Hey everybody, welcome to another round of what it was like, what happened, and what it's

like now, featuring David Mannheim and his hair raising dispatches from the front lines of heroin junkie

dumb all the way to fringe cult figure status as the sober host of Dopi, his recovery themed

podcast and its legion of Rabid Dopi Nation fans who together are hoisting recovery out of the dank church basement

and serving it up with a dark humor like a quote chemically suicidal

jackass end quote which are David's words quote,

which are David's words, not mine.

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