OWEN VERMEULEN

“the only vision for the future that comes in addiction is the fear of getting sick without it. So you're constantly battling to avoid that dope sickness we call it. So there's no it's truly a day-to-day grind, hour to hour grind and the only time I could look into the future was oh no I'm going to be sick in tomorrow morning if I don't have this.”

“it took me about five years of trying really hard to finally get clean and yeah like you you get to the point like for me it was I was at the point where I was either going to be dead you know or years in prison or you know get clean and get clean was for a lot of addicts that's kind of the lower tier one that seems the least realistic unfortunately even though it's the highest in the Hope.”

“I saw plenty of that in treatment where you know pro athletes would you know have one injury and it just took them down such a dark path. And that's the thing about addiction is it doesn't discriminate right like it can take anyone at any time and that's the scary part.”