3 days clean detoxing. Heading to 28 day tomorrow. Scared to leave my wife and daughters but I don't want them to grow up without a dad. Prayers appreciated good luck everyone we can do it

I was once an iv opioid abuser. Started the methadone program and never touched it again after that day!! Aug 29 2015 is my sobriety date 😻

Getting clean was the hardest thing I’ve ever done but my recovery has become a lifestyle and habit a work ethic and I’m proud to say I am a college athlete getting good grades and proving to myself that recovery is possible and life is more than the demons that haunt you

I am going to get clean and sober after Christmas.Merry Christmas everyone

I hate that people who struggle with addiction are sent to prison. They need help and support, not shaming and isolation. That's only going to make the issue 10× worse later down the track. I don't live with substance issues but I have other addictions which aren't what people normally class as addictions and it hurts me deeply to know that other people out there struggling with addictions to drugs or alcohol are treated so badly. It's a mental illness, not a crime. People who struggle with anything need help and love, including people who struggle with substances. Thank you for sharing your story and I'm sure you just made many people watching this feel so much less alone. People like you who open up and share their stories make it just a little easier for everyone else and if everyone starts sharing, the world can hopefully become a place where we don't punish people who are suffering

I love this. Working on staying clean always!! The work never stops and God don't either

Such an inspiration, such a great speaker , one of my favorites I have heard speak ! Today I celebrate one year drug free , thanks to the help of MAT! We can recover ! We can beat this !

HI THANK GOD FOR THIS GUY FOR SHARING HIS ADDICTION PROBLEM THAT REALLY HIT HOME FOR ME I HAVE BEEN SOBER FOR 2 YEARS AND 11 MONTHS AS OF FEBRUARY 6-2023 I NEVER FELT BETTER I HOPE WITH THIS GUY STORY AND MY SOBRIETY JOURNEY WILL HELP AT LEAST ONE PERSON AND ON AND ON AND ON THANKS FOR SHARING LOVE YOU GUYS AND LIVE A SOBER AND HAPPY HAPPY 2023🎉❤❤❤

My addict love one sent me this . He is in rehab for meth addiction. Thanks for sharing.

This video is gold I can’t believe that this video just have 115 likes while other trashing videos in the platform who have nothing to teach to the humanity haves millions of likes and views, this humanity is disappointing.

I know that the stigma is a major issue but where to start when seeking for help is also a big problem let alone the cost involved for the treatment. I think many more people would come forward if they knew how to go about it and could afford it

Good story. I’m sober 40 years. Love to chat.

Suboxone was worse to get off than anything. Praise God I am free of it all 🙏

relapse Today mad at my self .. I feel bad wut I did .. but imma stay strong .. too much to lose . I’ll succeed

Best content about addiction I've seen so far!

Wow! Incredibly inspirational! It has been my understanding that the younger a person is when they begin using substances - and the longer they are using (not to mention the route of administration -I.V. In Mr. McFadden’s case) - the poorer the prognosis. So - this has been an EXCEPTIONAL example of the possibility of HOPE for ANYONE to recover. Thank you so much for sharing your remarkable journey. I wish you many more decades of good health and good cheer! (FYI - I’m also “in recovery.”)

That was from the heart. Thank you.

Shared this video for psycho-ed. Feedback was very positive and hopeful for recovery. Thank you!

I’m so incredibly grateful and honored to know Scott’s courage and desire to make the implicit explicit. You are an inspiration Scott

He is such an inspiration!!

Stigma & shame are the worst enemies of recovery.

Huge Respect!!

Thank you so much great advice! STOPTHESTIGMASTARTSURVIVING!

i feel the same! thank you for talking about it!

Thank you for sharing your story!

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

Thank you for sharing your story

Very well said I can see myself in your story And it's just what I needed tonight

Thank you for your sharing, for your bravery.

BRAVO!!!!

Thank you for sharing this Scott..! 🙏🏻🤍😇👌🏻✨

Your story is my own on so many levels. You are 100% right MAT is extremely effective but also very judgementalized I feel like it's my job to share your video to everyone in my mat clinic

Recover out loud....I like that 💯

Thank you for your share.

Thank you for shari g your hope! Very inspiring!

I'm a firm believer, the majority of people are addicted to at least 1 thing.the problem is, some things are socially acceptable.

I’m struggling soooo much right now! i want to get clean so bad but i’ve been suffering silently for so long i don’t know how to come clean and ask for help, everyone knows i’ve had problems with substances in my past but i’ve been (supposedly high functioning, doesn’t really feel like that to me though) and suffering in silence for the last 3 years. I’ve had the worst experiences in the past, i mean not 1-2 encounters but probably dozens because i’ve been suffering for 2 decades on and off. I feel like i’m in a crowd of people screaming and no one can hear me. i truly don’t know what to do, don’t know where to start. I’m also a single mom so worried about losing my kids and can’t afford to to take the time off to go to rehab. it’s truly feels like a hopeless situation.

Such a Wonderful and insightful TED talk !!!

My first day

Wow. Very inspirational and educational. This and videos like this need much more publicity.

im 24 turning 25 soon. i lived in Dallas, TX from 2 years old until I was 21. I was an illegal immigrant but I would say I was a victim, I had no say in the matter, I was only 2 years old. I grew up in TX the same way a normal US citizen does and sometimes normal US citizens have addictions and problems. I had problems because I grew up around people who had problems. Fast forward to going to jail because of a DUI, an offense that micheal would only serve about a month worth of jail time. I had to serve something bigger, I had to say goodbye to my home and say hello to a country (Mexico) that I have never seen in person before. In TX i didnt smoke cigarettes but a week after arriving in mexico, I started smoking cigarettes because I needed to distract myself from all the stress and sadness. I met an uncle who found a place to get drugs and soon after I was hooked on Meth Amphetamine because it made the pain and sadness of being kicked out of my home go away. Now I'm trying to stop and have been successful for a while but every now and again I relapse and I feel ashamed. I live alone, have no friends to talk to. That uncle who introduced me to it got clean because his wife came down to Mexico to live with him and meanwhile I'm in an apartment living alone, feeling alone. I want to change, but when I just feel so much more lonely when I'm sober, no one talks to me, no one sends a message to ask how I'm doing. I feel so alone. I drink sometimes and I don't even know why. Dear God, I hope I can recieve help before this goes too far.

Thank you for sharing your story ❤️

Thank you!!!!!!

It’s the third time I’m listening to it

Excellent story my friend, thank you for sharing....x

Awesome Ted Talk, Subutex saved my life!! I'm 20 months clean now thanks to MAT

You would never look at this guy and think he has been through all that.

We need to confront the word "addict." It's the final inevitable show-down between 12-step adherents and those fully committed to healing the stigmatizing effects of that word.

he did a great job changing his appearance. would have never guess all he went through

Teflon. One tough cookie. Stigma and labeling had NO affect at all!

I commend you for how far you have come. To start using from an early age & trying all sorts of drugs, being in prison & much more you certainly had hope because look how far you have come & to teach others. I believe strongly that many addicts don’t come forward for help cause of the stigma put on them. Also I live in Australia & here our medical system is good but in the USA there not much hope unless you have money. That should be your first priority instead of money spent on weapons & your military system. Thank you for your story you are an inspiration, & have achieved something that in times is impossible

I beg everyday for this nightmare to end, go to sleep everyday hoping for the impossible, 3 degrees yet dumbest person I know to put myself here, hopefully one day but I'm not the same as who I was a long time ago, another feeling to know it's wrong and continue knowing you are destroying yourself

Yay!!!

🙌🏻💯

I could care less or anyone thinks I would never give up my Suboxone based on how it’s viewed or if people don’t think it’s clean or not if it’s considered being clean I know that it saved my life that’s all the proving I need

I'd really like to know the blood dopamine levels of withdrawal, and of sweets like candy

Can this medical problem be a spiritual problem, the lack of one's own spiritual condition, you're saying support connection to other humans activities instead of just sitting around doing nothing sleeping so much it shows that you're depressed most of the time you just rather sleep I think this is spiritual like abuse from one's that love them or however that abuse occurred and has a force of its own a spiritual force that inflicts itself on a individual that can have lasting effects unless they come to a place where they can find spiritual the security and understand the direction there now going it is different it has that companionship that has that backup system and becoming part of the solution through one's own testimony.

I would do anything to go to a 60-90 day rehab and get clean! I'm in Ontario Canada and theres 50 methadone clinics in my city, but no way to actually get off drugs! I've been on a single opioid for about 15 years, all I want is to ditch it, go through withdrawl and get mental help.. but a rehab costs $10,000 to start, if anyone is wondering why theres an opioid epidemic, keep in mind theres no help! The methadone clinics will give you all the legal dope you want, ironically, I got prescribed the drug I'm hooked on at the methadone clinic .. but for those who want to get CLEAN, good luck unless you're a rich person.. I've come to the conclusion they want us to all die and go away, that's why fentanyl hit the streets and wiped out half of them .. the rest of the homless addicts, which even in my hope to get off the single pill I'm on, have no hope other than piling on more drugs legally

I dont wont them to die alone

It make me wont to go to where my son and his wife lives under a rode way with 18 outher homless people because I cant give them any money and continue to enable them

I was an addict until the age of 28 w two baby girls when I quit. I disagree w the speech - stigma yes it exists- for me it did- a Latino background where everything is made note of…if I hadent risen above pride id be dead. We blame society-stigma…it’s not stigma…it’s pride- personal pride- you rise above it you can beat it.

Oh boy, why love necessity exists? It just fills up the deelers Bank accounts; should be if you get fine if not doing different something nice and healthy instead.

Let me see if I understood him. We are in the middle of an opiodi epidemic and he is telling us that medications is severely under used?

Methadone should be banned everywhere. Buroborphine is the way to go..the withdrawal is so much easier..

hard guy to listen to with that constant lip smacking every time he starts talking

Wow! Incredibly inspirational! It has been my understanding that the younger a person is when they begin using substances - and the longer they are using (not to mention the route of administration -I.V. In Mr. McFadden’s case) - the poorer the prognosis. So - this has been an EXCEPTIONAL example of the possibility of HOPE for ANYONE to recover. Thank you so much for sharing your remarkable journey. I wish you many more decades of good health and good cheer! (FYI - I’m also “in recovery.”)