I Guess I’m an Adult Now...

An Honest Conversation with my African Dad on Addiction - Ep09


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For the first time ever, I sat down with my dad to talk about my struggle with weed addiction. I wanted to know—did he know? Did he ever suspect? And what was it like for him, watching me go through life while secretly battling something I couldn’t talk about?

The conversation takes an unexpected turn when Papa Duru shares his own experimentation with marijuana after immigrating to America from Nigeria—a story he'd never told his daughter before this recording. 

His vivid description of cultural shock moving from a Nigerian village where drug use was heavily stigmatized to New York during the crack epidemic provides crucial context for understanding immigrant perspectives on substance use.


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