Adam Wittbrodt is a personal trainer and recovery advocate. He grew up with an alcoholic father who walked out on his 12th birthday and died before Adam turned 19. Carrying grief Adam spent the next decade and a half burying under IV heroin, forged checks, and 8 felonies. One day he collapsed at the front desk where he worked after injecting what he thought was heroin. It was laced with fentanyl and cocaine. A hotel guest walked in at exactly the right moment and called 911. Three weeks into county jail after that, he heard himself tell his cellmate he was pissed that the paramedics had saved him. That was the break. He went through Midland County Recovery Court, then treatment at Harbor Hall in Petoskey. Sober June 22nd, 2016. He has 10 years, runs a personal training operation with 100+ clients, a fitness and recovery program inside the Midland County Juvenile Justice Center, and co-hosts the Level Up Life podcast.

I Used To Do Heroin At Work Now I'm 10 Years Sober w/ Adam Wittbrodt | The Hopeaholics Podcast #359

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0:00 — Intro
0:58 — Adam Wittbrodt
11:59 — Cigarettes at 13 to IV heroin
12:53 — First Vicodin prescription at 14
14:50 — "Maybe if I do what my dad did, I'll understand him"
16:34 — Dad dies; $10K in life insurance gone in a month
18:29 — First 90 days in jail at 21
21:06 — The Curry Hotel: 3 × 80mg Oxy loaded into one shot
23:24 — Conning doctors
25:08 — 23 months to 14 years
30:00 — Grandmother dying in the ICU
31:20 — Using laced Heroine at work
33:06 — It was fentanyl and cocaine: just hitting the market in 2016
33:52 — Survivor's remorse: "Why was I saved?"
35:42 — The ER should treat addiction like a diabetic emergency
52:32 — 7th and 8th felonies, $500K bond
1:03:23 — 10 years sober; 210 meetings in 210 days
1:14:37 — Building the personal training business
1:15:48 — The Rebuild Program
1:19:52 — 300 fentanyl deaths a day: why he thinks he was saved