SHAIR 115: Adam Jasinski a Convicted Drug Felon now Helps Recovering Addicts.
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2017
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Adam Jasinski joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast.
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In April of 2008 Adam Jasinski was the $500,000 prize winner on the CBS reality show "Big Brother Season 9" and from the moment he cashed in his check his life unraveled. First he failed to file an income tax return nor pay the taxes owed on the money. In 2009 Adam was arrested outside Boston and charged with attempting to sell 2,000 pills of oxycodone, the main active ingredient in OxyContin and other painkillers.
He had originally pleaded not guilty to possession with attempt to distribute oxycodone but changed his plea to guilty during a hearing Monday in U.S. District Court in Boston. He also pleaded guilty to the tax charge, which was added on by prosecutors. Jasinski admitted to funding his illegal venture with the $500,000 winnings from the show, and to buying and reselling oxycodone pills for several months, Jasinski faced a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Jasinski was sentenced in January 2011 to four years in federal prison for the drug charge and tax evasion.
Today he's putting his history of hitting bottom and climbing back up to good use by serving as a resource for others. Jasinski is writing a book for parents dealing with addicted children and also a workbook for teens and young adults coping with staying clean post-release from drug addiction treatment.
He's also an unpaid, informal mentor and consultant for the drug and mental health treatment center – Oceans Medical Centers – recently opened by his mother and a co-owner (who lost a family-member to opioids) in Palm Beach County, Florida, not far from his home in Delray Beach.
Adam has always held a deep drive to get his thoughts and insights out onto paper. Now he wants to make those insights accessible to those struggling with mental health and substance abuse issues, and to the families who want nothing more than to save and help them.
Join us now as Adam takes us through his battle with Drugs and Alcohol and his inspiring journey into recovery. You don't want to miss this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Speak up. Selfish program. It's all about you. If you want to do it, speak up. Open your mouth. Don't shut up. Talk. Talk. Talk. There's magic in the spoken word. What goes on your head doesn't make sense until you speak it. |
| 0:14.6 | That was Adam Jizinski, and this is the Share Podcast. It's time for the Share Recovery Podcast, where we bring you amazing life-changing success stories from addicts and alcoholics all over the world who share their inspiring journey and recovery. |
| 0:31.2 | And now here's your host, Oh. |
| 0:37.2 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome to another episode of The Share Podcast, and today we have Adam Jizinski joining us on the show. |
| 0:44.5 | And Adam is the grand prize winner on the CBS reality show, Big Brother Season 9. |
| 0:52.7 | And this episode is a cautionary tale of what happens when you win a tremendous amount of money |
| 0:58.9 | and are just completely unprepared to deal with fame and fortune, all in one giant dose. |
| 1:05.4 | In 2008, he won his grand prize, and by 2009, Adam was arrested outside Boston and charged with attempting |
| 1:12.4 | to sell 2,000 pills of oxycodone and was facing a maximum of 20 years in prison with a $1 million |
| 1:19.6 | fine. This interview is a true cautionary tale. Adam takes us through his roller coaster ride |
| 1:25.9 | that is his life battling with bipolar disease, |
| 1:29.4 | addiction, and his time served in prison. So let's dive into Adam's story. But before we dive |
| 1:35.2 | into Adam's story, something interesting happened last week that I wanted to share with you guys. |
| 1:41.4 | I was invited to go on the Dopepy podcast. I don't know how many of |
| 1:45.3 | you listened to the dopey podcast, but it's a pretty extreme podcast that talks about |
| 1:50.9 | drug addiction, recovery, and other dumb shit. That's kind of their tagline. And when I was first |
| 1:57.1 | invited, I listened to a few episodes prior to responding to them. And I was like, wow, |
| 2:01.3 | this is kind of a little, you know, this is a very different, this is a very different take on |
| 2:06.9 | addiction. It's more edgy. It's a little more hardcore. And I wasn't sure if I felt comfortable |
| 2:11.1 | doing the show. But the cool thing was that I recently quit my job of being in the online casino and sports book industry for the |
| 2:20.2 | last over 15 years. That's one of the reasons why I live in Costa Rica. It's not something that I like |
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