Secret 040: How My Narcissistic Ex Got Me Addicted to Heroin PART ONE!

Beyond the Secret

Ace Fanning

Society & Culture

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Secret 040: How My Narcissistic Ex Got Me Addicted to Heroin PART ONE

An impressionable teen enters into an unhealthy relationship that consumes years of her life. Manipulation and a cycle of dependency eventually lead her from opioids to a devastating heroin addiction. Get the perspective from the other side of addiction in the first of a two-part episode secret share.

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0:00.0	The following episode contains sensitive material including firsthand accounts of sexual abuse and domestic violence.
0:08.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:10.0	What's your secret? Welcome back to another week of Beyond the Secret.
0:17.0	My name is Ace Fanning, and if your name is Linda, and you felt the need to send me an email, letting me know that
0:28.4	beyond the secret is low class and you don't appreciate the
0:33.0	low class language used on it
0:36.6	consider this your own trigger warning
0:40.8	which linda if you took a second to look, you would see that every beyond the secret episode of all time has an explicit warning label in the title.
0:53.2	Like, how much more clear do I need to make it for you?
0:57.1	We are low class here.
0:59.8	Anyways, if you watch my Instagram stories, then you saw me talking about today's episode, because
1:06.2	I just recorded it yesterday, which was Monday, and I'm bringing it to you today, which is Tuesday.
1:15.0	Because I really wanted to get this episode out there.
1:20.0	I had it jump the line, which I've been doing a lot of lately but I just feel like I
1:26.1	keep getting some really good stuff that I want to share with you and I think this interview has the potential to really shed a light on a topic we've not really covered on here before, but also provide insight for those who have a loved
1:48.6	one stuck in a similar situation. Because the purpose of this podcast is to help people and I
1:58.9	think sometimes that help looks completely different from story to story. And what I love so much about
2:07.2	this interview is the way that this woman tells her story.
2:14.4	Like she really makes things click for me.
2:20.3	I'm not, okay, I'm not going to lie to you.
2:23.0	Drug addiction has always been a tricky situation for me to understand.
2:30.0	And I feel like an ass for even saying that.
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