The 13th Step: The Shadow

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

So many of us have been touched by America's addiction crisis. And we look to treatment for solutions. But what happens when communities dedicated to treatment turn out to be dangerous? In the first episode of The 13th Step – the new investigative series from our friends at New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) – host Lauren Chooljian uncovers the culture of sexual misconduct in America's recovery communities, a phenomenon known as 13th stepping. This is a story that some people tried to stop NHPR from telling. It's a story about the limits of the #MeToo movement. And it's a story about the dangers journalists and their sources face when they expose alleged wrongdoing by people in positions of power. Listen to the entire season of The 13th Step here.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Kelli McEvers and this is Embedded from NPR.
0:04.3	And this week we want to share a new investigative podcast.
0:07.8	It's called the 13th step.
0:09.7	It's produced by our friends at NHPR, that's New Hampshire Public Radio.
0:14.8	You might have seen the recent coverage of this show and what happened to the host,
0:20.0	Lauren Trulgen, and how some people tried to stop her from telling the story.
0:25.4	Either way, whether you read the coverage or not, the story is all about what happens
0:29.9	when people who have promised to help other people try to harm them instead.
0:35.5	And about the dangers that journalists face when they try to expose this kind of wrongdoing.
0:40.5	It is a really riveting story and we'll let Lauren take it from here.
0:44.7	Here is episode one of the 13th step.
0:56.0	So you get there.
0:58.2	What do you remember?
1:00.2	Green Mountain is a completely different vibe that I'm used to.
1:05.6	It didn't feel like treatment.
1:09.1	But I remember I had my first real god moment there because of the view is incredible.
1:17.7	Actually, it was really cool.
1:18.5	One time, somebody was having a really tough time and so we all had the idea, like, hey,
1:23.6	Marricade, can we go down to the helicopter landing pad and watch the sunset?
1:29.8	And she brought us down.
1:30.4	We all screamed from the mountain and it felt so good.
1:33.2	It was like a movie.
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