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Matt Finch has a candid heart-to-heart with his good fiend (Freudian slip; should’ve said ‘friend’) Mike — who has been addicted to meth, alcohol, heroin, pills, cocaine, and more. After decades of addiction and chronic relapse, will Mike ever get his life together?
At 40 years of age, Mike still lives with his mom and has been unemployed for many years on-and-off, going from one job to the next, chronically relapsing back to addiction, and he’s still motivated for a new life.
And now, with his recent hire at a company he loves where he’ll be working for a manager that “has his back”, it could be the break Mike needs to finally leave his addiction in the past.
Chronic meth addiction leads to severe negative changes in the brain.
And Mike has been using meth on-and-off (though mostly on) for over 20 years, and he also binge drinks and uses Kratom and cannabis to try and stay off alcohol and meth.
Matt knows that his friend has the ability and the motivation to quit, but he needs to do something different if he wants different results.
Matt’s conversation and soft-coaching with Mike is a heart-warming and educational experience.
Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:
- Mike’s family life growing up, with a father and older brother that were often drunk
- Getting introduced to cannabis
- Graduating to cocaine
- Mike falls in love with his drug of choice, meth
- Male prostitution becomes a vehicle to continue paying for drugs
- 17 visits to drug rehab, 4 graduations, and none of them got him better
- Around 3500 AA and NA meetings, yet none of them helped him stay clean
- SMART Recovery
- An approach to recovery that focuses on career-training and responsibility
- Biochemical individuality and the drug of choice phenomenon
- Opioid-Energy Addiction Connection
- Heroin addiction
- Using Kratom to quit heroin
- Alcohol addiction with no hangovers
- Pornography addiction while using meth
- Testosterone Replacement Therapy for men with low T
- Somaderm Transdermal HGH Gel available without a script that Matt Finch uses to boost his Human Growth Hormone, causing more energy, libido, a better mood, deeper sleep, joint and bone health, and much more
- Chronic relapsing
- Brain damage from meth
- A new sense of hope
- Desire to meet new friends and play sports and get in shape
- Another attempt at getting clean… to be continued
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Stay strong , so many people have meth addiction so I am very grateful that you guys did this show and keeping it real❤️Ty
I hope he stays strong, I know he has it within him to do so. Thanks for commenting, Dawn. -Matt
Thank you so much for doing this interview. Thank you, Mike for being OPEN and Sharing about your experience. It IS SO REFRESHING.
As a Meth Addict myself, I do not feel like I can talk about it to my family (who is aware) because they act like it is so dirty. I myself say a drug is a drug is a drug. It does not make it any easier to talk about it with them. The disappointment and disgust they have for “Meth” literally makes you feel like you just got caught killing someone.
I am 46 and living at my mom’s also. I hardly ever leave the house and do not keep many people around nowadays. Too tired and drained from all the crappy people sucking up my energy claiming to care.
I also have some mental issues that I am working on. I am extremely intelligent probably almost gifted in ways others are not. Started using at the age of 14 and pretty much followed in the same path that Mike did. I never did heroin.
I did take pain medication for a while due to an injury. Trying to get off of that and still wanting pain relief I was switched to Suboxone.
Never thought I would get off of it but I did last year.
I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU, MATT!
I found you online when I was looking up how to get off of Suboxone.
All the information that you freely shared helped me get through the process more comfortably. If I had more money I would have paid you personally to get the one-on-one help. Unfortunately that’s not the case.
I really enjoyed hearing Mike speak. I felt like I could relate to him and he would be a easy person to talk to.
I think that’s one of the things that could help us with our recovery. Being able to talk to other people that could help us feel more connected.
If I knew Mike’s last name I would try to get in touch with him to see if he would be willing to talk to me.
I can tell you that one of the best feelings for an addict is finding another who has been through similar experiences.
I know it eliminates the feeling of being judged and allows you to open up. I feel like it would be such a big help to one another.
Sorry for the long post 🌅
Good luck to both of you.
Mike is awesome. I love and accept him for who he is, as does his mom and grandma… he just needs to find other people that appreciate his openness and other traits, rather than care what other people think when they don’t like him. Thanks for commenting. This made my day. -Matt
BTW.. don’t quit being who you ARE! There are people in the world just like you and when they first meet someone their whole story comes out. There are also people in the world that like to just listen.
Mike is so awesome. He’s a genuine dude that really cares about people deeply.