I Robbed My Own Drug Dealers Until One Shot Me | Fentanyl Addiction

Larry Chapman had every reason to make it. A 4.2 GPA honor student who graduated two months early, he was the kid everyone thought would be fine. But he was also prescribed Adderall at eight, lost his biological mother to a prison sentence when he was little, and by his late teens was chasing a feeling through weed, Xanax, and cocaine. At 21 he was handed what he thought were Percocets — they were pressed fentanyl — and a two-year double life began that nobody around him saw coming.He holds nothing back about how dark it got: living as a functioning addict while spending tens of thousands on pills, robbing his own drug dealers, breaking into stash houses, pistol-whipping a man for his cash, and finally getting shot in the arm during a robbery — the moment that became his bottom. He’s just as honest about the climb out: a brutal precipitated withdrawal, multiple arrests and detoxing in a jail cell, the fiancée who stood by him when he finally admitted he had a problem, and losing his best friend Adam to an overdose, which sealed his decision to never go back. Three years clean from fentanyl and rebuilding a life he couldn’t have imagined, Larry shares the war stories not to glorify them, but so the person who’s done the same things knows they can still get out.Sponsored by Caron Treatment Centers

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