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Philip Seymour Hoffman was twelve the first time a stage play changed him permanently, in his own words, like a miracle. A wrestling injury a few years later pushed him fully into acting, and by the time he got to NYU he was using, as he put it, anything he could get his hands on. He liked it all. At twenty-two, after trying to quit on his own for a couple of years, he got real help. He stayed sober for the next twenty-three. Those were the decades that built the career people actually remember. An Oscar for Capote. Three more nominations. A family with his partner Mimi O’Donnell and their three kids. In 2012, twenty three years in, he relapsed. He went back into treatment the following spring. By that fall he’d moved into a separate apartment, trying to keep his kids at a distance from what was happening to him. Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away on February 2, 2014, forty six years old, found by a friend at his apartment. The medical examiner’s ruling was acute mixed drug intoxication, heroin among the substances involved. What he said once about acting lingers as his legacy: what it takes to be a great athlete is the same thing it takes to be a great actor, that kind of concentration, that kind of privacy in public. If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself. Resources available to you right now: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish) Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988 Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio. Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery.
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Heath Ledger grew up in Perth, Australia, in a house that came apart when he was ten, and left school altogether at sixteen to chase acting on his own terms. By nineteen he’d broken out in 10 Things I Hate About You. By twenty six, Brokeback Mountain had him nominated for an Oscar. Then came the Joker. He shut himself in a London hotel for a month to build the character, kept a diary, pushed himself into what he called the realm of a psychopath. He was still calling the role physically and mentally draining months after wrapping. On January 22, 2008, he was found unresponsive in his Manhattan apartment. He was twenty eight. Medical examiners ruled it an accident, six prescription medications combined, including the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone alongside drugs meant to help him sleep and calm down. Not one thing. All of them, together. A year later, his parents and sister walked onto the Oscars stage to accept his Best Supporting Actor award, the second ever given to someone after their death. His sister said they were accepting it on behalf of his daughter. He once said it plainly: “I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away.” If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself. Resources available to you right now: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish) Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988 Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio. Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery.
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Chris Herren has survived four overdoses. When he overdosed on heroin behind the wheel in his hometown of Fall River, his vehicle crashed into a Dunkin’ Donuts. Paramedics reported that his heart stopped for nearly thirty seconds before they were able to revive him. Chris Herren had lived the dream, a hometown kid who made it all the way to the Boston Celtics. Then a childhood friend sold him OxyContin outside his own house. Twenty dollars became a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-month habit, and when the pills got too expensive, heroin took over, following him from the NBA to overseas courts to that car. He woke up in a hospital, alive for the fourth time. A few weeks later, on August 1, 2008, he used for the last time. He has been sober ever since. He wrote a memoir, became the subject of an ESPN documentary, and built the Herren Project, which has helped thousands of families find treatment. He survived four overdoses so he could spend the rest of his life making sure other people never need a fifth. If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself. Resources available to you right now: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish) Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988 Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio. Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery.
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Johnny Depp was 47 and one of the most famous actors alive when a back injury on a movie set left him in constant pain. Long before any of that, Johnny Depp was a kid learning to disappear. His mother lashed out without warning, a shoe, an ashtray, whatever was closest, and by 12 he was taking her nerve pills and anything else he could find, just to stop feeling so much. When he was 15, his father walked out and told him he was the man of the house now, leaving him to hold up a mother who was barely holding on. So when a doctor handed him Roxicodone for the back injury, the escape was already familiar. Pain relief became a four-year dependency, the pills nursing the injury and the old wounds at the same time. Getting off them was not glamorous. On his doctor’s advice he went to a remote island and detoxed the hard way, a brutal stretch with no shortcuts. He came off the opioids, and he stayed off them. The next year, he severed part of a finger. Even in that much pain, he refused to take the opioid again. For most of his life, drugs were how he disappeared. This time, he chose to stay. If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself. Resources available to you right now: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish) Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988 Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio. Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery.
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Chris Herren was fourteen years old when he broke a promise to his mother and cracked open one of his father’s beers. His father, a longtime state representative back home in Fall River, Massachusetts, was by his own son’s description a vicious drinker. That’s the house this starts in. By eighteen he’s doing his first line of cocaine at Boston College, failing a drug test before he plays a single game there. By twenty five he’s living the dream, drafted home to play for the Boston Celtics, and it’s there that a childhood friend sells him OxyContin outside his own house. Twenty dollars turns into a twenty five thousand dollar a month habit. He starts buying pills before games. The Celtics release him after twenty five. The addiction follows him overseas as his career fades, and heroin follows soon after. In 2005, his mother dies never having seen him sober. Her dying wish, he’s said, was for him to get clean, and he didn’t give it to her in time. Three years later, he overdoses on heroin in a Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot, crashes his car into a utility pole, and his heart stops for nearly thirty seconds before paramedics bring him back. He gets sober on August 1, 2008, the same day his third child is born, the only one of his kids born to a sober father. Since then: a memoir, an ESPN documentary, and a nonprofit he runs with his wife that has helped thousands of families find treatment. In his own words: treatment and faith gave him sobriety. He calls it his life’s greatest gift. If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself. Resources available to you right now: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish) Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988 Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio.
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Ozzy Osbourne tried to get sober more times than most people will ever know. The story people know about Ozzy is drenched in chaos, the decades that should have taken him out and somehow didn’t. But another side of his story worth telling is how hard he fought for recovery, and how long it took to make it last. Ozzy attempted to stay sober several times over decades. He experienced court-ordered treatment, rehab stays, long sober stretches, relapses, you name it. But he made the decision to start over again every single time he slipped. Ozzy Osbourne was twelve years sober when he passed away, doing the daily work in his recovery while Parkinson’s and his failing health took nearly everything else. Twelve real years, earned in his sixties and seventies, long after the world had written him off. The month of September is National Recovery Month. If you are reading this on the other side of the screen, let his story be a reminder: recovery can take years, and more tries than you can count. All all of the days you stack, even after relapse, still count. Your story is not finished being written. You can start again today. If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself. Resources available to you right now: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish) Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988 Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you This Recovery Month, if you or someone you love is ready for treatment for opioid use disorder, a real clinician is one confidential visit away. Link in bio. #NationalRecoveryMonth #OzzyOsbourne #RecoveryIsPossible
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This is Thomas’ story, shared in his own words, in the hope that it might offer someone a semblance of hope and the courage to choose recovery. “Out of the twenty guys, I know one that’s still around. The others have passed away.” He says that plainly, the way you talk about something you’ve made peace with. “I’m one hundred percent glad I got off pain pills when I did, because I was out there just like the rest of them, buying pills off the street. I could have easily ended up being one that overdosed.” His addiction began with a back injury from industrial work, followed by surgery and a prescription refilled under a doctor’s supervision. “I didn’t seem to notice I was continuing to take these pills. It had just become such a natural part of it.” When the prescription ran out, he found other doctors, then the street, then heroin. “I hate needles so bad. There ain’t no way I’m gonna do this.” That fear may have saved his life. He kept it from his wife until the day he told her the truth. Then came Suboxone, real supervision, and one suggestion that changed things: try a meeting. He expected a room of strangers who matched every stereotype he’d seen on TV. Instead: “I felt relieved. I thought everybody has a stigma of junkies. I’ve met lawyers and doctors in my meetings who went through the same thing I did.” Off pain pills for twelve or thirteen years, he’s spent most of that time doing one thing. “As long as I’m still breathing, I’ll continue to help whoever wants it.” If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself. Resources available to you right now: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish) Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988 Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you Recovery starts with one honest conversation. Share your story below, or take the first step today. Link in bio for a confidential visit with a QuickMD clinician. Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and recovery. #RecoveryJourney #AddictionRecovery #YouAreNotAlone
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“I never called it being an addict. I always said I had dope cancer.” These are the words of a real QuickMD patient that has been in recovery for more than three years. Her story with addiction spanned forty-three years, and it’s exactly why we’re sharing it during National Recovery Month. Her story starts at six years old, moves through prison, a pain clinic that treated her like a criminal before she’d done anything wrong, and a batch of fentanyl she thought was OxyContin. It includes the worst thing a parent can survive: three months into her own recovery, she lost her son to fentanyl poisoning. She could have gone quiet after that. Instead she talks to anyone who’s where she used to be. “I tell them, you have options and you don’t have to die today.” What treatment gave her back is smaller than people expect, and bigger than anything else she’d tried. “My life is quiet, and I have peace for the first time in my whole life. For the first time.” If you’re stacking recovery days, weeks, or years of your own, or if you’re just starting to think there might be a door open somewhere, tell us in the comments. This month is about proving her story isn’t rare. It’s one of thousands. Resources available to you right now: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish) Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988 Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you Follow for more stories of people making their way into recovery. If you’re ready for your own next step, a real clinician is one confidential visit away. Link in bio. #NationalRecoveryMonth #RecoveryIsPossible #StackYourDays
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Whitney Houston is proof that addiction doesn’t care who you are. It doesn’t care how gifted you are, how much love surrounds you, or how badly you want to be free of it. It took hold of her early, ran through her family, and stayed with her through the fame, the marriage, and the private losses most people never knew she carried. She tried to get clean more than once. For a lot of people, that is what recovery takes, attempt after attempt, until one finally holds. She was still fighting for hers at the very end. We tell her story to honor everything she gave us, and to remind anyone in the same fight that they are not alone. If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself. Resources available to you right now: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish) Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988 Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you If you are looking for a way out of opioid addiction, our DMs are open. Message us anytime, or tap the link in our bio to talk to a real clinician. Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery. #WhitneyHouston #AddictionRecovery #RecoveryIsPossible
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This post is going to be a little different than the rest and from the heart. The side nobody saw Was addiction made my world smaller. One night became the next. The party became the purpose. The people I loved became collateral damage. And slowly, everything I once cared about started orbiting around one thing. That’s the part people don’t always understand about addiction. It isn’t just about what you’re putting into your body. It’s about what you’re willing to give up to keep doing it. Sobriety was the exact opposite. I had to give up one thing to get everything back. My peace. My purpose. My relationships. My time. My dreams. Myself. I used to think getting sober meant losing the life I wanted. Turns out, it was the first step toward getting one. One thing for everything. #addtion #recovery #oceantherapy #realtalk #recovery
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Chad’s story starts like so many. Doctors diagnosed him with Crohn’s disease, but he had to work, so they gave him something for the pain. When the prescriptions got harder to come by, he found his own supply. Then it wasn’t about getting high anymore, it was to stop from getting sick and to keep his job. This was the early 2000s and there wasn’t much to find. He told his parents everything and asked them for help. His father drove him to the clinic the first morning. Methadone worked, but it meant driving to the clinic every single morning. On his honeymoon, baggage handlers smashed three of his take-home bottles. He spent the last day of the cruise and the flight home in withdrawal, and was wheeled off the plane. That’s when he asked about other options, and that’s when he found Suboxone. “It gets rid of all the stuff you can’t handle. But it’s not chasing the high you’d get from the other stuff... It straightens my brain out and allows me to function and not think that I need more.” He tapered down once, nearly all the way off, and drinking filled the space. In 2020, pancreatitis put him in intensive care and a hospital told his wife he wouldn’t survive the night. Against the odds, he lived. With that chance, he decided to go back on his medication. He just bought a home back in April and he’s had promotions he attributes directly to being able to show up. “I’ve had a lot more employment opportunities and promotions and everything else, because I can function as a normal human being every day now.” Chad is a real QuickMD patient who chose to share his story. We share these stories because someone reading this needs to see that people make it out. Help for opioid addiction is available from home, book a same-day visit with a licensed QuickMD clinician. Learn more with our link in bio. #NationalRecoveryMonth
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Three years ago, time had stopped making sense to Brian. Now he says it’s finally slowed back down enough to notice a home he owns, a car he owns, and a 10-year-old daughter who lives with him full time. He worked 15 years as a CNC machinist at a shop where painkillers were easy to find and overtime paid well. What started as a way to get through a long shift became something else entirely. “It was a very, very quick downward spiral.” His mother and a childhood friend both said the same thing: try AA. He’s still going, twice a week, three years later. A friend later mentioned Suboxone, and Brian looked into it himself before deciding to try QuickMD. “It’s not just the Suboxone. It’s definitely the support system too.” He is now three years off opioids, two years off alcohol, and no relapses. And a line he told us himself, unprompted, about why he wanted to share this at all: “Even if it helps one person, then that’s a hundred percent worth it.” Thank you, Brian, for having the courage to share your recovery journey in the hopes of helping others. For #NationalRecoveryMonth, we’d love to hear from you. Share your recovery story in the comments or in our DMs, we would love to celebrate you too.
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