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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. I have Tom Wolfe with me today. I think his story is very interesting considering what we're seeing across the country right now. If you're not aware, we have a pretty severe homeless epidemic in a lot of our big cities. This is a serious problem

in many of the cities in the state of Michigan, but I know we see it in California, we see it in

D.C. We see it in New York. I think we have about a quarter of a million people in the United

States right now that are in this situation, that are homeless. Tom Wolfe is formerly homeless, also a recovering

heroin and fentanyl addict from San Francisco. He's been clean and sober for seven years now.

Your story, Tom, is pretty wild. I mean, I think it's the same story that so many people know.

You had surgery, right? And then ended up as an addict. That's right. And Tudor, it's great to be here. And I don't mean to correct you right out of the gate, but it's 750,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given. 750,000. Yeah. It's a much bigger problem than people seem to understand. And it's three quarters of a million.

Yeah, three quarters of a million.

And it's really manifested out here on the West Coast.

But yeah, I have a pretty wild story of falling into addiction and then homelessness and then

finding recovery.

I, first of all, I want to preface it by saying I'm a regular guy.

I'm just a regular middle class guy, married with two kids,

living in a suburb of San Francisco. And back in early 2015, when I was working for the city and

county of San Francisco, I had to have surgery on my foot to repair an old injury where they had to

break my foot and reset it and put two titanium screws in my foot to kind of stabilize it.

And they sent me home with a 30-day supply of oxycodone for the pain.

And I didn't use those pills as directed, so to speak.

One pill every four to six hours wasn't cutting it.

So I started using two pills.

And I still remember the day where I took three pills or 30 milligrams

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