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 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...