David Poses is a writer, speaker, and activist. After hiding his struggle with depression and opioids for twenty years, he started opening up and challenging conventional addiction wisdom.He has been published by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Daily News and has appeared on national TV programs, including The Doctors TV Show, and numerous radio shows and podcasts. With candor, humor, and a unique perspective informed by 

science and experience, he advocates for evidence-based approaches to drug policy, prevention, and treatment.David lives in Hudson Valley, New York, with his wife, Andrea, and two children, Ruby and Sam.

In this episode we talk about: 

• Always being sad as a child and his mom putting into therapy young

• Being too ashamed of his sadness to talk about it with a therapist 

• Trying every antidepressant before he reached high school 

• How a D.A.R.E. speech started his fantasy with heroin and how it would help him 

• The faults of many faith and abstinence rehab centters

• The hypocrisy of alcohol being legal in unlimited amounts 

• Hiding his addiction from everyone including his wife for years

• What inspired him to write his book

• His thoughts on legalizing drugs and how that would actually save lives

• and so much more!

  For more from David, to order his book, THE WEIGHT OF AIR and to learn about how to find buprenorphine contact him via his website https://davidposes.com and find him at @david_thekick 

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LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!

Amy Dresner episode

The L.A. Times article he wrote 

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