Part 2 of Dylan’s story is about what comes after stabilization: rebuilding relationships, finding work, and discovering community through peer-recovery meetings. We talk about what long-term recovery actually looks like two years in — the slumps, the wins, and the...

Dylan shares how casual weekend use in high school turned into daily heroin dependence, then into fentanyl exposure through contaminated supply. Part 1 covers the school years, the first overdose, and the family intervention that pulled him out of Oregon...

Part 2 of Sam’s story follows the road from detox through three treatment attempts, the relapse that almost killed him, and the medication-assisted treatment (MAT) plan that finally held. We talk about buprenorphine, naloxone access, and what made the difference...

Sam walks us through the slow slide from a prescribed opioid after a sports injury to buying pills on social media. In Part 1, we hear about the early warning signs his family missed, how counterfeit M30s entered the picture,...

In this opening segment of the Breath of Life conversation, a family member shares the early hours after losing a loved one to fentanyl poisoning — what the phone call felt like, what the coroner said, and how the silence...

Part 2 continues our conversation with Dylan, who comes from a rural farming community and has moved from fentanyl addiction into long-term recovery. We keep it human and away from sensationalism: his struggles, his wins, the moments that led him...

Dylan grew up in a rural area and has come through fentanyl addiction into long-term recovery. In Part 1, he talks with us plainly, without sensationalism, about his life: the struggles, the wins, and the moments that led him to...

Sam's path to substance use disorder did not start all at once. In Part 2, he shows how little separates a kid from someone sentenced to jail, and it is in jail that he tries fentanyl for the first time...

Sam is an ordinary American whose life took an unexpected turn when he encountered fentanyl in jail. He overdosed the first time he tried it. In Part 1 of his story, we look at how fentanyl reaches even places people...

Part 1 of Breath of Life, a conversation from the Facing Fentanyl podcast. Facing Fentanyl shares real stories about fentanyl and the hope of long-term recovery. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide...