On today’s episode of The SHAIR Podcast Amber Leone Murphy the founder of “Can’t Keep a Sober Girl Down” and the author of “Crushing Codependency” shares with us her incredible battle with alcoholism. Amber now 9 years sober, started drinking at 8 years old sneaking sips of beer from left over beer cans at family parties. For over 10 years, Amber alcoholism would gradually get worse and worse: drinking on the job, public intoxication, arrested for a DUI, and sleeping in her car. Amber finally hits rock bottom when she moves to New York and ends up in an alcoholic blackout throughout all of 9-11.
Luis P. now 10 years clean, takes us through his life of crime, drug addiction and gangs in Oakland California. In High School racial segregation was very prevalent the blacks with the blacks, whites with the whites, the Latinos with Latinos so Luis gravitated towards the Mexican gangs. By the age of 16 Luis was addicted to crack and ended up in the streets robbing, steeling, dealing drugs whatever it took to survive. Today Luis is a Father, a husband, a friend as well as a responsible productive member of society. It’s an amazing and inspiring journey of recovery. Join us now.
On today’s episode I tell my story and take you through 10 years of alcoholism and drug abuse. I started out drinking and smoking pot in High School as a weekend warrior and later graduated to smoking weed, snorting coke, popping pills and drinking whiskey daily. During my years of using I was shoplifting, stealing from my employers and selling drugs. When I finally hit rock bottom I had lost my wife, my friends and almost my life. It wasn’t until my daughter was born that I was finally able to find recovery. Join us now.
Jason Smith, the author of The Bitter Taste of Dying, takes us through 16 years of addiction to prescription drugs more powerful than heroin and morphine. During High School Jason get's into a car accident and is prescribed Norco and Soma for pain relief and overnight becomes addicted to painkillers. After college in order to get off of the pills his doctor prescribes a time release patch called Fentanyl that takes him to the bottom of all bottoms. Jason overdoes 6 times, ends up in a Mexican jail trying to score drugs and ultimately attempts suicide when all hope is lost. It’s an incredible story of survival and an inspirational story of recovery and hope.