I Drank 20+ Drinks A Night And Thought It Was Normal
Tanny took something like 20 flights to sit down with Rise Above — because when you live in a 9,000-person town in the Canadian Arctic, that’s what it takes. Coming up on a year sober, she tells a sto...
13 Nov 1h 7min
I'm Exposing The Rehab Scam That's Killing People In Recovery In South Florida
Crystal Meliea is back on Rise Above — and this time she’s risking a lot to tell the truth about an industry most people in recovery are afraid to talk about. With nearly 12 years sober, she pulls bac...
11 Nov 1h 39min
I Couldn't Go A Single Day Without Cocaine For A Decade | From Iraq Combat Vet To Cocaine Addict DJ
J.R. had two lives most people never see collide. He was a decorated Army soldier — one of the first 500 troops across the border into Iraq during shock and awe, living in one of Saddam’s bombed-out p...
9 Nov 1h 1min
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...
7 Nov 1h 40min
I Was A College Athlete Who Ended Up Homeless Shooting Heroin
Dom Scalzo lived and breathed lacrosse. He was the first kid from his small Rochester high school to go Division 1, chasing a childhood dream of playing at Syracuse — until a nagging injury, a bottle ...
5 Nov 1h 47min
I Drove The Getaway Car For A Pharmacy Robbery To Feed My Heroin Addiction
Dalen McMillon’s story is almost too wild to be real. A bull rider and martial artist as a kid, he became an Army airborne paratrooper before 9/11, then built a glamorous career as a celebrity hairdre...
2 Nov 1h 44min
Brandon Kelly on Losing Everything to Fentanyl and Nearly His Arms
Brandon Kelly is about to celebrate two years sober — the longest stretch of his life, and something he never believed he’d live to see. He grew up in Hammonton, New Jersey in a loving home, raised by...
1 Nov 1h 13min
I Was A Straight-A Engineering Student Secretly Overdosing At Parties | Lily Trestan on Overdosing at 21, Getting Sober Young and Finding Her Purpose
From the outside, Lily Trestan looked like she had it all together — a private-school kid from Montreal, a straight-A student on track for an engineering career at McGill. Underneath, she was struggli...
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